Nature in German History / / ed. by Christof Mauch.
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field of environmental history; in no other country has the landscape been so thoroughly politicized throughout its past as in Germany,and in no other country have ideas of &...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2004 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in German History ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION Nature and Nation in Transatlantic Perspective
- Chapter 1 “CONQUESTS FROM BARBARISM” Taming Nature in Frederick the Great’s Prussia
- Chapter 2 THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE RHINE
- Chapter 3 LANDSCAPE AS HISTORY Pückler-Muskau, The “Green Prince” of Germany
- Chapter 4 ALL OF GERMANY A GARDEN? Changing Ideas of Wilderness in German Garden Design and Landscape Architecture
- Chapter 5 FOR NATION AND PROSPERITY, HEALTH AND A GREEN ENVIRONMENT Protecting Nature in West Germany, 1945-70
- Chapter 6 WALDSTERBEN The Construction and Deconstruction of an Environmental Problem
- INDEX