Imagining the Nation in Nature by Thomas M Lekan
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.
One of the strengths of Thomas Lekan's book on German landscape preservation movements is that it notes the country's regional and historical diversityIt demonstrates as well the tension and conflicts regarding the racial and mystical approach to landscapes, which occurred even during the height of the Nazi era. No simple line of volkisch continuity, but a twisted road through complexity, is offered in this insightful text...The book challenges the viewpoint that German landscape preservationists were antimodern. It also undercuts claims about the origins of present environmental policies emerging during the Nazi era. -- Dieter K. Buse H-Net Reviews 20050401
Thomas M. Lekan is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674010703 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674010701 |
| Title | Imagining the Nation in Nature |
| Author | Thomas M Lekan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2004-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 342 |
| Prizes | Nominated for George L. Mosse Prize 2004, Nominated for President's Book Award 2003, Nominated for Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2005, Nominated for Lynton Keith Caldwell Award 2004, Nominated for Herbert Baxter Adams Prize 2005, Nominated for Rachel Carson Prize & Ludwik Fleck Prize 2005, Nominated for Hans Rosenberg Book Prize 2006 |
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