Chapter 2 THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE RHINE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. CONTRIBUTORS vi
4. PREFACE vii
5. INTRODUCTION Nature and Nation in Transatlantic Perspective 1
6. Chapter 1 “CONQUESTS FROM BARBARISM” Taming Nature in Frederick the Great’s Prussia 10
7. Chapter 2 THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE RHINE 31
8. Chapter 3 LANDSCAPE AS HISTORY Pückler-Muskau, The “Green Prince” of Germany 48
9. Chapter 4 ALL OF GERMANY A GARDEN? Changing Ideas of Wilderness in German Garden Design and Landscape Architecture 74
10. Chapter 5 FOR NATION AND PROSPERITY, HEALTH AND A GREEN ENVIRONMENT Protecting Nature in West Germany, 1945-70 93
11. Chapter 6 WALDSTERBEN The Construction and Deconstruction of an Environmental Problem 119
12. INDEX 132