05603nam 22006254a 450 991045515960332120200520144314.00-674-04007-410.4159/9780674040076(CKB)1000000000805475(OCoLC)449894219(CaPaEBR)ebrary10328794(SSID)ssj0000176736(PQKBManifestationID)11922904(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176736(PQKBWorkID)10209613(PQKB)10750797(MiAaPQ)EBC3300618(Au-PeEL)EBL3300618(CaPaEBR)ebr10328794(OCoLC)923112240(DE-B1597)574385(DE-B1597)9780674040076(EXLCZ)99100000000080547520030626d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrImagining the nation in nature[electronic resource] landscape preservation and German identity, 1885-1945 /Thomas M. LekanCambridge, MA Harvard University Pressc20041 online resource (343 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-01070-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-323) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map of the Rhine Province -- Introduction -- 1 Nature’s Homelands: The Origins of Landscape Preservation, 1885–1914 -- 2 The Militarization of Nature and Heimat, 1914–1923 -- 3 The Landscape of Modernity in the Weimar Era -- 4 From Landscape to Lebensraum: Race and Environment under Nazism -- 5 Constructing Nature in the Third Reich -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- IndexOne of the most powerful nationalist ideas in modern Europe is the assertion that there is a link between people and their landscape. Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era to illuminate the relationship between environmental reform and the cultural construction of national identity. In the late nineteenth century, anxieties about national character infused ecological concerns about industrialization, spurring landscape preservationists to protect the natural environment. In the Rhineland's scenic rivers, forests, and natural landmarks, they saw Germany as a timeless and organic nation rather than a recently patchworked political construct. Landscape preservation also served conservative social ends during a period of rapid modernization, as outdoor pursuits were promoted to redirect class-conscious factory workers and unruly youth from "crass materialism" to the German homeland. Lekan's examination of Nazi environmental policy challenges recent work on the "green" Nazis by showing that the Third Reich systematically subordinated environmental concerns to war mobilization and racial hygiene. This book is an original contribution not only to studies of national identity in modern Germany but also to the growing field of European environmental history. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Nature's Homelands: The Origins of Landscape Preservation, 1885-1914 2. The Militarization of Nature and Heimat, 1914-1923 3. The Landscape of Modernity in theWeimar Era 4. From Landscape to Lebensraum: Race and Environment under Nazism 5. Constructing Nature in the Third Reich Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Sources Acknowledgments Index Writing squarely within the idiom of the 'invented tradition' and the 'imagined nation,' Thomas Lekan argues that in the wake of belated unification and at a time of rapid industrialization, the German landscape came to be seen as a touchstone of national identity. He questions the idea that those engaged in landscape preservation were simply 'antimodern,' and he challenges both scholars who have seen a straightforward continuity from pre-1933 preservationist sentiment to Nazism and those who have made exaggerated claims for the Third Reich as the progenitor of modern green politics. This is a welcome contribution to the literature on local and national identity, joining works by Celia Applegate and Alon Confino, and on the environmental history of modern Germany. Both scholarly and original, Imagining the Nation in Nature is an impressive achievement.--David Blackbourn, Harvard UniversityThis important and timely book contributes to our understanding of German identity as well as to modern concepts of environmentalism and nature. Lekan's valuable contribution elucidates the modern, technocratic, and therapeutic vision of preservation that linked Weimar and the Third Reich. His analysis of Nazi bio-nature is significant and thought-provoking.--Alon Confino, University of VirginiaLandscape protectionSocial aspectsGermanyHistory20th centuryLandscapesPsychological aspectsGermanyHistory20th centuryNational socialism and scienceElectronic books.Landscape protectionSocial aspectsHistoryLandscapesPsychological aspectsHistoryNational socialism and science.333.72/0943/0904AR 13120rvkLekan Thomas M1030475MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455159603321Imagining the nation in nature2447375UNINA01905nam0 22003973i 450 CFI038205220231121125452.0887684505420160623d1998 ||||0itac50 baitafreitz01i xxxe z01n˜Le œrelazioni pericolosePierre Choderlos de Laclostraduzione di Vincenzo Papa\Milano!Frassinelli\1998!470 p.20 cm.˜I œclassici classici58001RAV02533382001 ˜I œclassici classici58˜Les œliaisons dangereusesCFI0081557CFIV05179021953823.912NARRATIVA INGLESE. 1900-194519Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-FrançoisCFIV051790070480849Papa, Vincenzo <omonimi non identificati>PALV026556Laclos, Pierre : Choderlos deBVEV003773Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-FrançoisChoderlos de Laclos, PierreBVEV004005Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-FrançoisLaclos, François Choderlos : deCFIV065846Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-FrançoisLaclos, Pierre Choderlos : deCFIV084622Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-FrançoisLaclos, Choderlos : deCFIV145203Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-FrançoisLaclos, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos : deCFIV345445Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-FrançoisITIT-0120160623IT-FR0017 Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio ApreaFR0017 NCFI0382052Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio Aprea 52MAG 7/992 52FLS0000164635 VMB RS A 2022012120220121 52Liaisons dangereuses21953UNICAS