Imagining the Nation in Nature
Subtitle: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: February 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780674010703
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Europe - Germany; Social aspects; Nature; National socialism and science; History: American; Germany; Development - Sustainable Development; History / Germany; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Psychological aspects; History; Landscape; Landscape protection
Description: "One of the most powerful nationalist ideas in modern Europe is the assertion that there is a link between people and their landscape. 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."--Jacket.