The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany by David Blackbourn

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

David Blackbourn

480 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."—Ian KershawDavid Blackbourn tells the story of how the German people transformed their landscape over 250 years from a waterlogged swampland into one of the most powerful countrie...

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