num_pages: 320
description: The fascinating story of how the German landscape was dramatically reshaped in the two hundred years from Frederick the Great to Adolf Hitler. It illustrates the gains as well as the human and environmental price paid.
language: English
title: The Conquest of Nature: Water & the Making of the Modern German Landscape
titlecomplete: The Conquest of Nature: Water & the Making of the Modern German Landscape
genres: History, German Literature, Science, Geography, Nature, Germany, Grad School, European History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 156
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: George L. Mosse Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
publisher: Jonathan Cape