Desert edens : colonial climate engineering in the age of anxiety

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale proj...
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Lehmann, Philipp N. [verfasserIn]

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E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Princeton Oxford: Princeton University Press ; 2022

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Schlagwörter:

Climatic changes-History

Desertification

Environmental geotechnology

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

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History

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1 Online-Ressource (x, 244 Seiten) ; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten

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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lehmann, Philipp N.: Desert edens - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022

Reihe:

Histories of economic life

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ISBN:

978-0-691-23828-9

DOI / URN:

10.1515/9780691238289

Katalog-ID:

1867614111

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