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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2004.
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Series: | Studies in German history ;
v. 1. |
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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.