Imagining the Nation in Nature : : Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945 / / Thomas M. Lekan.
One of the most powerful nationalist ideas in modern Europe is the assertion that there is a link between people and their landscape. Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era...
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