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Nature in German history / edited by Christof Mauch.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: GF576 .N37 2004

Overview

Format: Book
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2004
Locale: Germany
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.
Other Authors/Editors: Mauch, Christof.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Rezension
Table of contents
ISBN: 1571814388
9781571814388
Physical Description: 136 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Human ecology--Germany--History. Philosophy of nature--Germany--History. Human beings--Effect of environment on--Germany--History. Geographical perception--Germany--Philosophy. Germany--Environmental conditions.

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