Book ID: CBB000775205

The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (2006)

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Blackbourn, David (Author)


Norton
Publication date: 2006
Language: English


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xii + 466 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

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Review Buse, Dieter K. (2007) Review of "The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany". Canadian Journal of History (p. 108). unapi

Review Todd, Edmund N. (2009) Review of "The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany". Technology and Culture (p. 216). unapi

Review Chaney, Sandra L. (2009) Review of "The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany". European History Quarterly (p. 124). unapi

Essay Review Coen, Deborah R. (2008) The Greening of German History. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 142-148). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Macfarlane, Daniel
Bayerl, Günter
Candiani, Vera Silvina
Ceccarelli, Francesco
Halliday, Stephen
Landström, Catharina
Journals
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Environmental History
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Journal of Historical Geography
Archivio Storico Lombardo
Publishers
University of California, Berkeley
Aracne
Carocci Editore
Harvard University Press
Steiner
Sutton Publishing, Ltd.
Concepts
Hydraulic engineering
Environmental history
Water
Water resource management
Landscape; landscapes
Technology
People
Leonardo da Vinci
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Places
Italy
United States
Mexico
Canada
France
Germany
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