1. A Science of Sand: The Sahara as Archive and Warning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Climate Change and Changing Climates 1
5. 1. A Science of Sand: The Sahara as Archive and Warning 13
6. 2. Flooding the Desert: Roudaire’s Sahara Sea Project 38
7. 3. New Garden Edens: The Rise of Colonial Climate Engineering 53
8. 4. A New Climate for a New Continent: Herman Sörgel’s Atlantropa 72
9. 5. Europe’s Last Hope: Active Geopolitics and Cultural Decline 92
10. 6. Slavic Steppes and German Gardens: Desertification in the Third Reich 115
11. 7. Eastern Deserts: Climate and Genocide in the Generalplan Ost 135
12. 8. Epilogue: Global Desertification and Global Warming 153
13. Notes 171
14. Archives 231
15. Index 233