Conquest of Nature Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany

Name: Conquest of Nature Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany
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ISBN: 9780393062120

ISBN-10: 0393062120

ISBN-13: 9780393062120

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Blackbourn

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Majestic, lyrically written, and handsomely illustratedone of the most original works of history in a generation. This absorbing work traces the rise of the German nation through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn begins his morality tale in the mid-1700s, with the epic story of Frederick the Great, who attemptedby importing the great scientific minds of the West and by harnessing the power of his armyto transform the uninhabitable marshlands of his scattered kingdom into a modern state. Chronicling the great engineering projects that reshaped the mighty Rhine, the emergence of an ambitious German navy, and the development of hydroelectric power to fuel Germany's…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

David Blackbourn is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University.



List of Maps


Preface


Introduction: Nature and Landscape in German History


Conquests from Barbarism: Prussia in the Eighteenth Century


A Wilderness of Water and Marsh


The Lords and Masters of Nature


Colonists


Fields of Joy and Abundance


Paradise Lost?


The Man Who Tamed the Wild Rhine: Remaking Germany's River in the Nineteenth Century


The Bells of Pfotz


Tulla's Plan


Remaking the Upper Rhine


Winners and Losers


Golden Age: From the 1848 Revolution to the 1870s


The Jade Bay


Colonizing the Moors


The Triumph of the Steamship


Further Victories over the Powers of Nature


Dam-Building and Modern Times: From the 1880s to World War Two


In the Wonderland of Technology


Otto Intze: "Grand Master" of German Dams


Flood Protection, Navigation, and "White Coal"


With Mastery of the Water Comes the Opportunity for Conflict


The Impact on Environment and Landscape


Drowned Villages, Broken Dams


Race and Reclamation: National Socialism in Germany and Europe


A Gray-Dark Wilderness


Race, Reclamation, and Genocide


Conservation and Conquest


The Mystique of the Frontier and the "Wild East"


Indian Wars


Landscape and Environment in the Postwar Germanys


The Garden of Our Hearts: The "Lost Lands" in the East


The "Economic Miracle" and the Rise of Ecology


Implementing the Transformation of Nature in Germany


Epilogue: Where It All Began


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index