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Conquest of Nature, Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

Conquest of Nature, Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

by David Blackbourn

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 608 PAGES

Bringing together politics, culture, economics and ecology, Blackbourn looks at the history of Germany from the mid-eighteenth century to the present through the lens of water and landscape developments.  (GER169, $29.95)


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