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9/11The conquest of nature : water, landscape, and the making of modern Germany
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-449) and index
Introduction: Nature and landscape in German history -- Conquests from barbarism -- The man who tamed the wild Rhine -- Golden Age -- Dam-building and modern times -- Race and reclamation -- Landscape and environment in the postwar Germanys
"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
Introduction: Nature and landscape in German history -- Conquests from barbarism -- The man who tamed the wild Rhine -- Golden Age -- Dam-building and modern times -- Race and reclamation -- Landscape and environment in the postwar Germanys
"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
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