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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787874503321

Autore

Moranda Scott

Titolo

The people's own landscape : nature, tourism, and dictatorship in East Germany / / Scott Moranda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2014]

ISBN

0-472-02972-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Disciplina

914.310487

Soggetti

Tourism - Germany (East) - History

Landscapes - Germany (East) - History

Land use - Germany (East) - History

Nature - Effect of human beings on - Germany (East) - History

Ecology - Germany (East) - History

Political culture - Germany (East) - History

Dictatorship - Social aspects - Germany (East) - History

Germany (East) Social conditions

Germany (East) Environmental conditions

Germany (East) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Conquering the Countryside : Athletic Tourism in the Early GDR -- Chapter 2. Rejuvenating Socialist Workers : Conservation and Landscape Care in the 1950s -- Chapter 3. Making Rough Nature More Comfortable : Camping in East Germany -- Chapter 4. A New Environmental Law : Landscape Care, Global Ecology, and Domestic Social Policy -- Chapter 5. Real Existing Socialism : Nature, Social Inequalities, and Environmental Consciousness -- Chapter 6. The Limits of Growth and the New Environmentalism.