Nature in German History /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Blackbourn, David,
Brüggemeier, Franz-Josef,
Chaney, Sandra,
Cioc, Mark,
Mauch, Christof,
Parshall, Linda,
Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim,
HerausgeberIn:
Mauch, Christof,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Studies in German History ; 1
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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

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