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Paper short abstract

Taking the Lüderitz Bay area and its various camps as example, the paper discusses dynamics of infrastructure, sanitation and labour policies in order to chart urban trajectories of modernities and death in southern Namibia between 1905 and 1909.

Paper long abstract

Taking the Lüderitz Bay area and its various camps as example, the paper discusses dynamics of infrastructure, sanitation and labour policies in order to chart urban trajectories of modernity and death in southern Namibia between 1905 and 1909. The paper is exploraory and makes use of the private letters of a Swiss medical camp doctor reporting on the area and themes of concern.