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Imagining the Nation in Nature : Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674040076
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining the Nation in NatureDDC classification:
  • 333.72/0943/0904
LOC classification:
  • QH77
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 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 -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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 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 -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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