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Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000
Corinna Treitel
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hardcover. A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850. Num Pages: 412 pages, 22 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFCV; JPFQ; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107188020
SKU
V9781107188020
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About Corinna Treitel
Corinna Treitel is a historian at Washington University, St Louis. She is the author of A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern (2004), and has published articles in Central European History, Food and Foodways, Modern Intellectual History, and various edited volumes. She has received several major grants, including a year-long fellowship at the Radcliffe ... Read more
Reviews for Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000
'Corinna Treitel has written a highly readable and informative book ... She shows how important life reform was for the development of modern alternative diets and at the same time makes clear that a decades-long dynamic of criticism and co-optation between vastly different actors propelled the consolidation and wide dissemination of the 'natural diet'.' Laura-Elena Keck, translated from H-Soz-Kult (www.hsozkult.de) ... Read more