Environing Empire
| Titel: | Environing Empire |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Berghahn Books, 2022 |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9781800732902 ; 9781800732896 |
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- List of Figures
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Chapter 1
- Currents, Chances, Commodities
- p. 17
- On the Margins
- p. 19
- Boiling Giants
- p. 25
- Clubbing the Wing-Footed
- p. 30
- Shoveling White Gold
- p. 33
- Chapter 2
- Accessing Arid Lands
- p. 51
- Our Place in the Desert
- p. 52
- Reaching Southwest Africa
- p. 58
- Germany's Own Entrance
- p. 64
- Chapter 3
- Harbors, Animals, Trains
- p. 83
- Technological Marbles
- p. 84
- Animal Engineering
- p. 90
- Reaching Inland
- p. 97
- Chapter 4
- Solving Aridity
- p. 119
- Existing Structures
- p. 120
- Water Structures
- p. 129
- Engineering Water
- p. 136
- Chapter 5
- Access and Destruction
- p. 155
- Supplying War
- p. 157
- Maintaining Access
- p. 161
- Fighting Nature and People
- p. 169
- Chapter 6
- Expanding War and Death
- p. 189
- Drilling Wood
- p. 191
- Accessing the South
- p. 197
- Reaching Beyond
- p. 203
- Chapter 7
- Creating a Model Colony
- p. 223
- Visions of a Model Colony
- p. 224
- Constructing the Future
- p. 229
- Solving the Water Question
- p. 234
- Creating a Settler Paradise
- p. 241
- Conclusion
- p. 267
- Selected Bibliography
- p. 279
- Indexes
- p. 297
- Index of Places
- p. 297
- Index of Persons
- p. 300
- Index of Subjects
- p. 304
