Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Landscape of German Environmental History 1
5. Part I. Seeing Like a State: Water, Forests, and Power
6. Chapter 1. Germany as a Focus of European “Particularities” in Environmental History 17
7. Chapter 2. Conviction and Constraint: Hydraulic Engineers and Agricultural Amelioration Projects in Nineteenth-Century Prussia 33
8. Chapter 3. A Sylvan People: Wilhelmine Forestry and the Forest as a Symbol of Germandom 55
9. Chapter 4. Forestry and the German Imperial Imagination: Conflicts over Forest Use in German East Africa 81
10. Part II. The Cultural Landscapes of Home
11. Chapter 5. Organic Machines: Cars, Drivers, and Nature from Imperial to Nazi Germany 111
12. Chapter 6. Biology—Heimat—Family: Nature and Gender in German Natural History Museums around 1900 140
13. Part III. The Politics of Conservation
14. Chapter 7. Indication and Identification: On the History of Bird Protection in Germany, 1800–1918 161
15. Chapter 8. Protecting Nature between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Changing Ideology of the Bourgeois Conservationist Movement, 1925–1935 183
16. Chapter 9. Protecting Nature in a Divided Nation: Conservation in the Two Germanys, 1945–1972 207
17. Notes on Editors and Contributors 245
18. Index 249