Environing Empire Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa (Volume 23)
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 trie...
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2022
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