How green were the Nazis? : nature, environment, and nation in the Third Reich / / edited by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier, Mark Cioc, and Thomas Zeller

• Pubblicazione: Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7/0943/09043
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy - Germany - History - 20th century; Green movement - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 1933-1945
• Altri autori: BruggemeierFranz-Josef CiocMark ZellerThomas
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Legalizing a Volksgemeinschaft""; ""“Eternal Forestâ€?Eternal Volkâ€?""; ""“It Shall Be the Whole Landscape!â€?""; ""Polycentrism in Full Swing""; ""Breeding Pigs and People for the Third Reich""; ""Molding the Landscape of Nazi Environmentalism""; ""Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, and Environmentalism""; ""Blood or Soil?""; ""Violence as the Basis of National Socialist Landscape Planning in the “Annexed Eastern Areasâ€?""; ""Glossary""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: The Nazis created nature preserves, contemplated sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis? is the first book to examine the ideology and practice of environmental protection in Nazi Germany. Environmentalists and conservationists in Germany welcomed the rise of the Nazi regime with open arms, for the most part, and hoped that it would bring about legal and institutional changes. However, environmentalists soon realized that the rhetorical attention that they received from the regime did not always translate into action. By the late 1930s, nature and the environment became less pressing concerns as Nazi Germany prepared and executed its extensive war. Based on prodigious archival research, and written by some of the most important scholars in the field of twentieth-century German history, How Green Were the Nazis? illuminates the ideological overlap between Nazi ideas and conservationist agendas. Moreover, this landmark book underscores that the "green" policies of the Nazis were more than a mere episode or aberration in environmental history.((BLURB))-"The environmental ideas, policies, and consequences of the Nazi regime pose controversial questions that have long begged for authoritative answers. At last, a team of highly qualified scholars has tackled these questions, with dispassionate judgment and deep research. Their assessment will stand for years to come as the fundamental work on the subject-and provides a new angle of vision on 20th-century Europe's most disruptive force."-John McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World-EDITORS-Franz-Josef Brueggemeier is a professor of history at the university of Freiburg, Germany. He has published extensively in the field of environmental history in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe.Mark Cioc is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor of the journal Environmental History. He is the author of The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000. Thomas Zeller is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Strasse, Bahn, Panorama, translated as Driving Germany.
• Titolo autorizzato: How green were the Nazis
• ISBN: 0-8214-4196-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964712503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.