Title: Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa.
Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives, 23
Price: US$19.95
Author: Kalb, Martin
ISBN: 978-1-80539-304-7 Binding: Paperback Hardback    
Pub Date: 202403 Availability: NYP Illust:
Publisher(Imprint): XXBerghahn(Berghahn)
           
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.