| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.1

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Book Review

Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History. Edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. v + 266 pp. Map, notes, index. Cloth $54.95.

Germany's Nature is a collection that demonstrates the environment's role in the formation of German identity between the period of unification and the Nazi Gleichschaltung. National myths that claimed a special bond between Germans and their forests, developing views on the natural ideal, socio-political developments, and concrete aspects of the landscape all interacted to influence the shifting formation of German identity during this period of modernization with consequences for the German people, the German environment, and the world. With its focus on the creation of a real and symbolic German topography and German culture on the eve of Nazi ascendancy, Germany's Nature forms a welcome companion to the collection How Green Were the Nazis? (also edited in part by Thomas Zeller). But while that book focuses on Nazi environmental policies, Germany's Nature better succeeds at environmental historians' goal of depicting the interplay between culture and tangible landscapes.

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