Nature in German history /

"The essays collected in this volume - the first collection on the subject in either English or German - place discussions of nature and the human relationship with nature in their political contexts. Taken together, they trace the gradual shift from a confident belief in humanity's abilit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Mauch, Christof (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.
Series:Studies in German history ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Germany > History.
Philosophy of nature > Germany > History.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Germany > History.
Geographical perception > Germany > Philosophy.
Philosophie de la nature > Allemagne > Histoire.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement > Allemagne > Histoire.
Perception géographique > Allemagne > Philosophie.
NATURE > Ecology.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Ecology.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Human ecology.
Philosophy of nature.
Germany > Environmental conditions.
Germany.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Nature and nation in transatlantic perspective / Christof Mauch
  • "Conquests from barbarism" : taming nature in Frederick the Great's Prussia / David Blackbourn
  • The political ecology of the Rhine / Marc Cioc
  • Landscape as history : Pückler-Muskau, the "green prince" of Germany / Linda Parshall
  • All of Germany a garden? Changing ideas of wilderness in German garden design and landscape architecture / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
  • For nation and prosperity, health and a green environment : protecting nature in West Germany, 1945-1970 / Sandra Chaney
  • Waldsterben : the construction and deconstruction of an environmental problem / Franz-Josef Brüggemeier.

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