| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany. By Paul Warde. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 392. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $99.00.

The Cambridge historian Paul Warde has written "a book about the state and the material world" (p. 3). Studies analyzing the operation of state, he argues, often focused on "immaterial" aspects, such as authority, divinity, sovereignty, or community. But the exercise of power always was linked to material things, be it resources, be it land. "The relevance and power of the immaterial rested upon its intersection with the material realities of existence" (p. 3). No historian will deny this assumption—particularly no one doing environmental history. Unlike studies concentrating either on the state's influence on the material world or on different types of states being shaped by different environmental settings, Warde claims to combine these two well-established perspectives to one new.

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