LEADER 04684nam 22006255 450 001 9910777652803321 005 20230920173210.0 010 $a1-280-94715-2 010 $a9786610947157 010 $a0-8135-3770-3 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537702 035 $a(CKB)1000000000464985 035 $a(EBL)977453 035 $a(OCoLC)806204716 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000162409 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166965 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000162409 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10201362 035 $a(PQKB)11681372 035 $a(OCoLC)191947913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977453 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21378 035 $a(DE-B1597)530174 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537702 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000464985 100 $a20200623h20052005 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGermany's nature $ecultural landscapes and environmental history /$fThomas Lekan, Thomas Zeller 210 1$aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2005] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) 311 0 $a0-8135-3667-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Landscape of German Environmental History --$tChapter 1. Germany as a Focus of European ?Particularities? in Environmental History --$tChapter 2. Conviction and Constraint: Hydraulic Engineers and Agricultural Amelioration Projects in Nineteenth-Century Prussia --$tChapter 3. A Sylvan People: Wilhelmine Forestry and the Forest as a Symbol of Germandom --$tChapter 4. Forestry and the German Imperial Imagination: Conflicts over Forest Use in German East Africa --$tChapter 5. Organic Machines: Cars, Drivers, and Nature from Imperial to Nazi Germany --$tChapter 6. Biology?Heimat?Family: Nature and Gender in German Natural History Museums around 1900 --$tChapter 7. Indication and Identification: On the History of Bird Protection in Germany, 1800?1918 --$tChapter 8. Protecting Nature between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Changing Ideology of the Bourgeois Conservationist Movement, 1925?1935 --$tChapter 9. Protecting Nature in a Divided Nation: Conservation in the Two Germanys, 1945?1972 --$tNotes on Editors and Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aGermany boasts one of the strongest environmental records in the world. The Rhine River is cleaner than it has been in decades, recycling is considered a civic duty, and German manufacturers of pollution-control technology export their products around the globe. Yet, little has been written about the country's remarkable environmental history, and even less of that research is available in English. Now for the first time, a survey of the country's natural and cultural landscapes is available in one volume. Essays by leading scholars of history, geography, and the social sciences move beyond the Green movement to uncover the enduring yet ever-changing cultural patterns, social institutions, and geographic factors that have sustained Germany's relationship to its land. Unlike the American environmental movement, which is still dominated by debates about wilderness conservation and the retention of untouched spaces, discussions of the German landscape have long recognized human impact as part of the "natural order." Drawing on a variety of sites as examples, including forests, waterways, the Autobahn, and natural history museums, the essays demonstrate how environmental debates in Germany have generally centered on the best ways to harmonize human priorities and organic order, rather than on attempts to reify wilderness as a place to escape from industrial society. Germany's Nature is essential reading for students and professionals working in the fields of environmental studies, European history, and the history of science and technology. 606 $aLandscape protection$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aNature conservation$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aForests and forestry$zGermany$xHistory 615 0$aLandscape protection$xHistory. 615 0$aNature conservation$xHistory. 615 0$aForests and forestry$xHistory. 676 $a333.72/0943 686 $aAR 12600$2rvk 702 $aLekan$b Thomas M$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aZeller$b Thomas$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777652803321 996 $aGermany's nature$93778127 997 $aUNINA