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Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000

By Corinna Treitel

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781107188020
DOI
10.1017/9781316946312
ASIN
B0716FDL6D
LCC
TX369 .T74 2017
Google Books ID
X9AoDwAAQBAJ
Open Library ID
OL35836982M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16868573 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
417\417
Topic
Housekeeping, leisure\\Cooking
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-10-24 23:25:59
AgricultureCookingCulinaryeatEatingenironmentGermanyNature

Description

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and the Dachau concentration camp had an organic herb garden. Vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practices have enticed a wide variety of Germans, from socialists, liberals, and radical anti-Semites in the nineteenth century to fascists, communists, and Greens in the twentieth century. Corinna Treitel offers a fascinating new account of how Germans became world leaders in developing more 'natural' ways to eat and farm. Used to conserve nutritional resources with extreme efficiency at times of hunger and to optimize the nation's health at times of nutritional abundance, natural foods and farming belong to the biopolitics of German modernity. Eating Nature in Modern Germany brings together histories of science, medicine, agriculture, the environment, and popular culture to offer the most thorough and historically comprehensive treatment yet of this remarkable story.

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