Violence as Usual

Muschalek, Marie

doi:10.1515/9781501742866

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Creating a Settler Paradise1

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“…290 Of course, and according to one scholar, "German state control resembled more 'islands of rule' than a net, and, until the end, its power remained arterial rather than capillary. " 291 Still, newcomers could rely on landing structures, railways, irrigation systems. Most notably, they had access to a permanent black proletariat.…”

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Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Kalb¹

2022

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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 tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.

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confidence: 99%