Nature in German History

Published by Berghahn Books 2004

Nature in German History

Edited by: Christof Mauch

Volume 1 in the series Studies in German History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789205954

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Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field of environmental history; in no other country has the landscape been so thoroughly politicized throughout its past as in Germany,and in no other country have ideas of 'nature' figured so centrally in notions of national identity. 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 co texts. Taken together, they trace the gradual shift from a confident belief in humanity ’s ability to tame and manipulate the natural realm to the Umweltbewußtsein driving the contemporary conservation movement. Nature in German History also documents efforts to reshape the natural realm in keeping with ideological beliefs — such as the Romantic exultation of 'the wild' and the Nazis' attempts to eliminate 'foreign' flora and fauna — as well as the ways in which political issues have repeatedly been transformed into discussions of the environment in Germany.

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Christof Mauch is presently Director of the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany and since 2007 Professor of American Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. From 1999 to 2007, he was the director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C.

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“This inspiring, well illustrated survey, provided with a useful index…opens up, for the first time, for the non-German reader possibilities for fascinating international perspectives.” · Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Nature and Nation in Transatlantic Perspective Christof Mauch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 “CONQUESTS FROM BARBARISM” Taming Nature in Frederick the Great’s Prussia David Blackbourn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter 2 THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE RHINE Mark Cioc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 3 LANDSCAPE AS HISTORY Pückler-Muskau, The “Green Prince” of Germany Linda Parshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter 4 ALL OF GERMANY A GARDEN? Changing Ideas of Wilderness in German Garden Design and Landscape Architecture Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 5 FOR NATION AND PROSPERITY, HEALTH AND A GREEN ENVIRONMENT Protecting Nature in West Germany, 1945-70 Sandra Chaney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6 WALDSTERBEN The Construction and Deconstruction of an Environmental Problem Franz-Josef Brüggemeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: History (General); Environmental Studies (General)

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Published: October 1, 2004
ISBN: 9781789205954