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
Physical Details: xii + 466 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Reviewed By

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
Giuliano Pinto
Alberto Malvolti
Stroshane, Tim
Raith, Erich
Ferri, Gianluca
Rotella, Giovanni
Journals
Archivio Storico Lombardo
Acque Sotterranee
Revista de História Regional
Journal of Historical Geography
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Environmental History
Publishers
Olschki
Edizioni Osiride
Yale University Press
Waxmann
Viella
University of Nevada Press
Concepts
Environmental history
Water
Landscape; landscapes
Hydraulic engineering
Agriculture
Water resource management
People
Leonardo da Vinci
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Germany
Tuscany (Italy)
United States
Austria
Great Britain
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