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Germany's nature : cultural landscapes and environmental history /

Germany boasts one of the strongest environmental records in the world. The Rhine River is cleaner than it has been in decades, recycling is considered a civic duty, and German manufacturers of pollution-control technology export their products around the globe. Yet, little has been written about th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lekan, Thomas M., Zeller, Thomas, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Landscape of German Environmental History / Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller
  • Part 1: Seeing Like a State: Water, Forests, and Power. Germany as a Focus of European 'Particularities' in Environmental History / Joachim Radkau
  • Conviction and Constraint: Hydraulic Engineers and Amelioration Projects in Nineteenth-Century Prussia / Rita Gudermann
  • A Sylvan People: Wilhelmine Forestry and the Forest as a Symbol of Germandom / Michael Imort
  • Forestry and the German Imperial Imagination: Conflicts over Forest Use in German East Africa / Thaddeus Sunseri
  • Part 2: The Cultural Landscapes of Home. Organic Machines: Cars, Drivers, and Nature from Imperial to Nazi Germany / Rudy Koshar
  • Biology
  • Heimat
  • Family: Nature and Gender in German Natural History Museums around 1900 / Susanne Köstering
  • Part 3: The Politics of Conservation. Indication and Identification: On the History of Bird Protection in Germany, 1800-1918 / Friedemann Schmoll
  • Protecting Nature Between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Changing Ideology of the Bourgeois Conservationist Movement, 1925-1935 / John Alexander Williams
  • Protecting Nature in a Divided Nation: Conservation in the Two Germanys, 1945-1972 / Sandra Chaney.