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  • In this important contribution to environmental history, Blackbourn explains how 250 years of draining fens, constructing canals and dams, and straightening rivers have affected the destiny of Germany. Bound up with economic growth and political unification, reclamation has had a profound influence on national historical self-identity. Blackbourn elaborates these twin aspects from the outset in his discussion of Frederick II of Prussia, who sponsored a project to convert the Oder River flood plain to agriculture. It nourished a historic Germanic sense of superiority toward the Slavic east based on colonizing and ordering nature, which was soon swept into the grandiose reclamation projects of the Nazis. He also presents the nineteenth-century builders who transformed western Germany and offers personal observations of the sites where their dreams took shape, enhancing his presentation of the human and natural consequences of hydraulic engineering and their relation to German political forces up to the present. Perhaps too specialized for small collections, Blackbourn's study will be a great asset to the German history section. (xsd:string)
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  • 0224060716 ()
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  • The Conquest of Nature : Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany (xsd:string)
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  • London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.- 496 S. (xsd:string)
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