Environing Empire by Kalb, Martin;

Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives; 23;

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Product details:

Edition number 1
Publisher Berghahn Books
Date of Publication 8 April 2022
Number of Volumes Print PDF

ISBN 9781800732902
Binding Hardback
No. of pages322 pages
Size 229x152 mm
Language English

Short description:

Between the infamous Benguela Current and the Namib Desert, nature significantly effected the progression of German imperialism and the creation of German Southwest Africa. Environing Empire reveals the environmental infrastructures that defined not only the culture of German colonial entanglements, but the fantasy that drove Lebensraum during the Second Reich.

Long description:

Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.