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1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
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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A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hunger, citizenship, and the gospel of nature -- Being natural -- Nature and the nutrition question in Imperial and Weimar Germany -- Humans are only plants in nature's garden: remarking German agriculture, 1870-1939 -- Nature and the Nazi diet -- Mainstreaming nature, pursuing health: food and the environmental turn in West Germany -- Masking nature, prescribing health: the East German experience. |
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Natural foods -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Natural foods. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Natural foods -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Nutrition -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Nutrition -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Diet -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Diet. |
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Diet -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Nutrition -- Social aspects. |
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COOKING -- General. |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Treitel, Corinna. Eating nature in modern Germany. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107188020 (DLC) 2016059499 (OCoLC)965333184 |
| ISBN |
9781316994467 (electronic book) |
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1316994465 (electronic book) |
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9781107188020 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1107188024 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781316946312 (ebook) |
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1316946312 |
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9781316638392 (paperback) |
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1316638391 |
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1316992543 |
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9781316992548 |
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1316992861 |
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9781316992869 |
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1316993183 |
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9781316993187 |
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1316993507 |
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9781316993507 |
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