Arteries of empire: on the geographical imagination of South Africa's railway war, 1914/1915

This essay analyses a set of visual representations of the South African military campaign into German South West Africa in 1914/1915. This campaign is explored in terms of an imperial expansion and approached through the lens of visuality. Elaborating on an album produced by the Kimberley-based pho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giorgio Miescher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department 2012-01-01
Series:Kronos
Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902012000100003