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The Conquest Of Nature by David Blackbourn (Hardcover, 2006)

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This brilliant new book explores how, over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on the German imagination. It investigates how the most fundamental element water was conquered by draining fens and marshes, straightening the courses of rivers, building high dams and exploiting hydro-electric power. The book begins in the 1740s with Frederick the Great of Prussia, who regarded the reclamation of marshland as conquests from barbarism . We meet Johann Gottfried Tulla, the man who tamed the wild Rhine in the nineteenth century.We learn about the construction of the Prussian port of Wilhelmshaven on the Jade Bay, later to become a symbol of the new Germany s naval ambitions. We witness the colonisation of the moors and the triumph of the steamship. We encounter Otto Intze, master dambuilder of the years around 1900, whose modern marvels supplied drinking water to a fast-growing population and provided hydro-electrical power white coal . But the dark side of this conquest emerged under the Nazis, who set out to colonise living space in the East. Convinced of their superiority o