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

466 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn begins his morality tale in the mid-1700s, with the epic story of Frederick the Great, who attempted...

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