Environing Empire

Martin Kalb is an Associate Professor of History at Bridgewater College in Virginia. His research on the histories of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte), youth, and environmental history has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes; his monograph Coming of Age: Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942–1973 was published in 2016.

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Acknowledgments



Introduction



Chapter 1. Currents, Chances, Commodities

    On the Margins

    Boiling Giants

    Clubbing the Wing-footed

    Shoveling White Gold



Chapter 2. Accessing an Arid Land

    Our Place in the Desert

    Reaching Southwest Africa

    Germany’s Own Entrance



Chapter 3. Harbors, Animals, Trains

    Technological Marbles

    Animal Engineering

    Reaching Inland



Chapter 4. Solving Aridity

    Existing Structures

    Water Structures

    Engineering Water



Chapter 5. Access and Destruction

    Supplying War

    Maintaining Access

    Fighting People and Nature



Chapter 6. Expanding War and Death

    Drilling Wood

    Accessing the South

    Reaching Beyond



Chapter 7. Creating a Model Colony

    Visions of a Model Colony

    Solving the Water Question

    Creating a Settler Paradise



Conclusion



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