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The conquest of nature : water, landscape, and the making of modern Germany
- Title
- The conquest of nature : water, landscape, and the making of modern Germany / David Blackbourn.
- Author
- Blackbourn, David, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Norton, [2006], ©2006.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 466 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "David Blackbourn tells the story of how the German people transformed their landscape over 250 years from a waterlogged swampland into one of the most powerful countries in the Western world. His account, in which he shows how Germans set out to "conquer" that most fundamental natural element, water, brings together politics, culture, economics, and ecology in a daring work of total history."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-449) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : nature and landscape in German history -- 1. Conquests from barbarism : Prussia in the eighteenth century -- 2. The man who tamed the wild Rhine : remaking Germany's river in the nineteenth century -- 3. Golden age : from the 1848 revolution to the 1870s -- 4. Dam-building and modern times : from the 1880s to World War Two -- 5. Race and reclamation : national socialism in Germany and Europe -- 6. Landscape and environment in the postwar Germanys -- Epilogue : where it all began.
- ISBN
- 0393062120 (hardcover)
- 9780393062120 (hardcover)
- 9780393329995 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006001386
- 99820297478
- OCLC
- 63244666
- ocm63244666\
- SCSB-5299718
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries