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Cover: 9780226834696 | Green Lands for White Men | Meredith McKittrick | Taschenbuch | 2024
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Green Lands for White Men
Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
Taschenbuch von Meredith McKittrick
Sprache: Englisch

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"A compelling and timely history, Green Lands for White Men explores how white farmers in southern Africa grappled with arid environments and climate change as they sought to consolidate white dominance over the Black majority. In the early twentieth century, white southern Africans engaged in bitter disputes over the reality of climate change and its consequences. Many whites argued that rainfall was declining and that if they did not do something about it, the subcontinent would become a desert and white civilization in the region would collapse. The believers in climate apocalypse found their savior in Ernest Schwarz, a geology professor who promised that diverting rivers into the Kalahari would restore southern Africa's once-rainy climate, creating newly greened lands for the settlement of millions of whites and securing the future of a "white man's country" in Africa. Green Lands for White Men uses the story of this popular (though fortunately unrealized) attempt to engineer southern Africa's climate and racial order to examine the agrarian roots of apartheid in the mid-twentieth century. We live in a time of growing climate catastrophe, public mistrust of scientific experts, and emboldened white nationalism. In this book we witness this on another continent and in another century and see how these apparently unrelated factors came together to reinforce a worldview that proved highly resistant to argumentation and challenge by scientists"--
"A compelling and timely history, Green Lands for White Men explores how white farmers in southern Africa grappled with arid environments and climate change as they sought to consolidate white dominance over the Black majority. In the early twentieth century, white southern Africans engaged in bitter disputes over the reality of climate change and its consequences. Many whites argued that rainfall was declining and that if they did not do something about it, the subcontinent would become a desert and white civilization in the region would collapse. The believers in climate apocalypse found their savior in Ernest Schwarz, a geology professor who promised that diverting rivers into the Kalahari would restore southern Africa's once-rainy climate, creating newly greened lands for the settlement of millions of whites and securing the future of a "white man's country" in Africa. Green Lands for White Men uses the story of this popular (though fortunately unrealized) attempt to engineer southern Africa's climate and racial order to examine the agrarian roots of apartheid in the mid-twentieth century. We live in a time of growing climate catastrophe, public mistrust of scientific experts, and emboldened white nationalism. In this book we witness this on another continent and in another century and see how these apparently unrelated factors came together to reinforce a worldview that proved highly resistant to argumentation and challenge by scientists"--
Über den Autor
Meredith McKittrick is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. She is the author of To Dwell Secure: Generation, Christianity, and Colonialism in Ovamboland.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Landwirtschaft & Gartenbau
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780226834696
ISBN-10: 0226834697
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McKittrick, Meredith
Hersteller: University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 225 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Meredith McKittrick
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2024
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 129215250
Über den Autor
Meredith McKittrick is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. She is the author of To Dwell Secure: Generation, Christianity, and Colonialism in Ovamboland.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Landwirtschaft & Gartenbau
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780226834696
ISBN-10: 0226834697
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McKittrick, Meredith
Hersteller: University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 225 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Meredith McKittrick
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2024
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 129215250
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