The German Forest : : Nature, Identity, and the Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871-1914 / / Jeffrey K. Wilson.
From the late eighteenth century, Germans increasingly identified the fate of their nation with that of their woodlands. A variety of groups soon mobilized the 'German forest' as a national symbol, though often in ways that suited their own social, economic, and political interests. The Ge...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | German and European Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter one. National Landscape and National Memory
- Chapter two. Contested Forests: Ideal Values and Real Estate
- Chapter three. Environmental Activism in the Kaiserreich: Berlin and the Grunewald
- Chapter four. Reforestation as Reform: Pomerelia and the Tuchel Heath
- Chapter five. Meaningful Woods: Sylvan Metaphors and Arboreal Symbols
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter