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The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
by Blackbourn, David
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393062120
- ISBN 13
- 9780393062120
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Originally published in England with the subtitle Water and the Making of the Moder German Landscape. Beige boards with gilt facsimile signature, brown spine with gilt titles, xii, 466 pp, 10 maps, many illustrations in text, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "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 countries in the Western world." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.
Synopsis
David Blackbourn was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1949, and studied history at Cambridge University, where he was Research Fellow of Jesus College from 1973 to 1976. He taught at London University from 1976 to 1992, before moving to Harvard, where he is Professor of History and Senior Associate of the Center for European Studies. His work has appeared in six languages, and he is the author of Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980), T he Peculiarities of German History (with Geoff Eley, 1984), and Populists and Patricians (1987), and co-editor (with Richard Evans) of The German Bourgeoisie (1991). He lives with his wife and two children in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HIGE00007
- Title
- The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
- Author
- Blackbourn, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393062120
- ISBN 13
- 9780393062120
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- History - Germany
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - Germany;
- X weight
- 48 oz
- Size
- 24 X 16½ cm
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