Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945

by Thomas M. Lekan

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.

In the late nineteenth century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010701
• ISBN13: 9780674010703
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"