The conquest of nature : water, landscape, and the making of modern Germany
History takes place in space as well as time. This book tells how the German landscape was dramatically reshaped in the 200 years from Frederick the Great to Hitler. The author examines the gains as well as the human and environmental price paid in this book about water and landscape in the German imagination
History
xiii, 497 : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
9780224060714, 0224060716
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