The Conquest of Nature

David Blackbourn is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. His previous books include Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century and Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:David Blackbourn

页数:480

出版时间:2007-8-17

价格:GBP 12.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393329995

图书标签:景观风景

承接 住宅 自建房 室内改造 装修设计 免费咨询 QQ：624617358 一级注册建筑师 亲自为您回答、经验丰富，价格亲民。无论项目大小，都全力服务。期待合作，欢迎咨询！QQ：624617358

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 by importing the great scientific minds of the West and by harnessing the power of his army to transform the uninhabitable marshlands of his scattered kingdom into a modern state. Chronicling the great engineering projects that reshaped the mighty Rhine, the emergence of an ambitious German navy, and the development of hydroelectric power to fuel Germany's convulsive industrial growth before World War I, Blackbourn goes on to show how Nazi racial policies rested on German ideas of mastery of the natural world. Filled with striking reproductions of paintings, maps, and photographs, this grand work of modern history links culture, politics, and the environment in an exploration of the perils faced by nations that attempt to conquer nature.

读后感

就在柏林墙坍塌后不久，撒切尔夫人紧急召见她的智囊与外交政策顾问，来自牛津大学的现代史讲席教授诺曼·斯通，询问英国应该如何应对即将来临的两德合并，对不列颠的欧洲利益影响与考验。要知道，除了大西洋彼岸的老布什，几乎所有的西欧领导人内心都对德意志民族的强大与再度...  

从亚当夏娃偷食禁果开始，人类就失去了最初、也许是最完美的家园“伊甸园”，被驱逐到了人间。虽然现在可以把它称作人间，从前却不是什么与人为善的地方，这里的一切都肆意地野蛮生长，我们又把它称之为自然。自然不是人类天然的家园。由伊甸园仙境跌落到这未经开发蛮荒之地，...

大卫·布莱克本（David Blackbourn）是英语世界闻名遐迩的德国史学者，生于英国，在剑桥大学接受专业训练。1992年，布莱克本迁居美国，先后在哈佛大学、范德比尔特大学担任教职。布莱克本的著作包括《威廉二世时期的德国阶级、宗教和地方政策》（Class, Religion, and Local Po...