Desert Edens : Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety.

Desert Edens : Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lehmann, Philipp
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022.
Series:Histories of economic life.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Environmental geotechnology > History > 19th century.
Environmental geotechnology > History > 20th century.
Desertification > History > 19th century.
Desertification > History > 20th century.
Climatic changes > History > 19th century.
Climatic changes > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Climate Change and Changing Climates
  • 1. A Science of Sand: The Sahara as Archive and Warning
  • 2. Flooding the Desert: Roudaire's Sahara Sea Project
  • 3. New Garden Edens: The Rise of Colonial Climate Engineering
  • 4. A New Climate for a New Continent: Herman Sörgel's Atlantropa
  • 5. Europe's Last Hope: Active Geopolitics and Cultural Decline
  • 6. Slavic Steppes and German Gardens: Desertification in the Third Reich
  • 7. Eastern Deserts: Climate and Genocide in the Generalplan Ost
  • 8. Epilogue: Global Desertification and Global Warming
  • Notes
  • Archives
  • Index