- Published: 30 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448114214
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
The Conquest Of Nature
Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
- Published: 30 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448114214
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
Startlingly original... This is history at its most synoptic, weaving together disparate themes in a counterpoint of science and aesthetics, race and reclamation, hydrology and mythology
Daniel Johnson, Sunday Times
This book offers a fresh insight into this passage of German history and will interest engineers, ecologists, economists, politicians and historians alike
Bookends
A wide-ranging and highly original study... Blackbourn weaves elegantly among the disciplines, integrating the histories of science, technology, politics, diplomacy, culture and ecology into a nuanced and many-layered analysis of change
Christopher Clark, Times Literary Supplement
Sublimely good... Blackbourn has found an original and suggestive way into the history of both Germany's aggrandisement and its humility... far more than a good book on an out-of-the-way subject
The Economist
David Blackbourn has written an entertainingly original history, rich in insights into man and nature and the German - in fact, the European - mind
Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Cod
Brilliantly conceived, David Blackbourn's thought-provoking exploration of the ambivalence built into past attempts to exploit the environment offers a wholly novel approach to understanding modern German history. His book is a tour de force in historical writing
Ian Kershaw
A significant contribution to new ways of writing about the past… magnificently compelling
Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books