Environing Empire - 9781800732902

Berghahn Books

Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa\nby Martin Kalb\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Martin Kalb\nTitle: Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Colonialism and imperialism\nPublisher: Berghahn Books\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781800732902\nISBN-10: 1800732902\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nEven 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 landsca.