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Green Lands For White Men
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Author : Meredith McKittrick
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-10-08
Green Lands For White Men written by Meredith McKittrick and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-08 with History categories.
How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when the geologist Ernest Schwarz blamed the land itself, the farmers listened. Schwarz held that erosion and topography had created arid conditions, that rainfall was declining, and that agriculture was not to blame. As a solution, he proposed diverting two rivers to the Kalahari’s basins, creating a lush country where white South Africans could thrive. This plan, which became known as the Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme, was rejected by most scientists. But it found support among white South Africans who worried that struggling farmers undermined an image of racial superiority. Green Lands for White Men explores how white agriculturalists in southern Africa grappled with a parched and changing terrain as they sought to consolidate control over a Black population. Meredith McKittrick’s timely history of the Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race. While Schwarz’s plan was never implemented, it enjoyed sufficient support to prompt government research into its feasibility, and years of debate. McKittrick shows how white farmers rallied around a plan that represented their interests over those of the South African state and delves into the reasons behind this schism between expert opinion and public perception. This backlash against the predominant scientific view, McKittrick argues, displayed the depth of popular mistrust in an expanding scientific elite. A detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.
Green Lands For White Men
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Author : Meredith McKittrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Green Lands For White Men written by Meredith McKittrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
"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"--
The Man Who Missed The War
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Author : Dennis Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-01-23
The Man Who Missed The War written by Dennis Wheatley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Fiction categories.
When German submarines were sinking so much Allied shipping that Britain faced the danger of starvation, Dennis Wheatley – then a member of the War Cabinet's Joint Planning Staff – suggested that a system of raft convoys, moved by the Gulf Stream and prevailing winds, should be used to float essential supplies across the Atlantic. This story is based on that idea. Philip Vaudell leaves the United States on a solitary raft, but when he comes across a ploy that would put him in danger, he casts away from his crew and the raft is left in the lap of the gods. But, with Philip was the other real trouble – in the enticing shape of red-headed Gloria, who had stowed away on his raft. Instead of drifting into European waters, they are carried down to the Antarctic where, amidst its eternal snows, he discovers a large area with a warm climate and populated by a lost race. Will they be able to make contact and request rescue, or will they be forced to find a way to integrate with these people? Furthermore, will they be welcomed, or used as part of their ritual human sacrifice?
In Search Of First Contact
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Author : Annette Kolodny
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-29
In Search Of First Contact written by Annette Kolodny and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with History categories.
A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.
The Glacier
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Author : Leonard
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2013-07-08
The Glacier written by Leonard and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-08 with Fiction categories.
Two agents disembarked somewhere at the latitudes 74-75N and disappeared in the cold white world. Nobody had ever heard about them from then. Twenty years later a team of best glaciologists of the country of Russia went to high latitudes of Arctic. They all were enthusiastic scientists under the leadership of talented young doctor of science, Vladimir Ustinov, looking with excitement for new discoveries on the largest in the Northern Hemisphere glacier of Greenland. They did it. The glacier was not cold; it was hot. The scientist had realized long time ago that the whole Greenland Ice Sheet was in fact one huge thousands of trillion tones glacier. However, the twisted minds of the others became curious about this phenomenon for the absolutely remote from the science reason. The great discovery was about to become a source of the greatest tragedy in the present world. The earth crust rift zones if stimulated provoked or rather evoked for activity could shift and move to plow everything on its way across North American continent. A resolute struggle with destructive forces set upon Arctic - in the abyssal of Greenland Sea and on the Hot Glacier
Conservation Note
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Conservation Note written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Natural history categories.
Conservation Note
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Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Conservation Note written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Natural history categories.
Arctic Researches And Life Among The Esquimaux
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Author : Charles Francis Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
Arctic Researches And Life Among The Esquimaux written by Charles Francis Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Arctic regions categories.
Pre Columbian Trans Oceanic Contact
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Author : Jerald Fritzinger
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-03-14
Pre Columbian Trans Oceanic Contact written by Jerald Fritzinger and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-14 with Reference categories.
Pre-Columbian Trans-Oceanic Contact examines the discovery and settlement of The New World hundreds and even thousands of years before Christopher Columbus was born.
British Football Social Exclusion
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Author : Stephen Wagg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-09-30
British Football Social Exclusion written by Stephen Wagg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Social Science categories.
The contributors to this book argue that the commercialized PR-driven British football world has either created, exacerbated or continued to ignore serious problems of social exclusion along lines of class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and age.