 The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany by David Blackbourn
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.
"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."- Ian Kershaw
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