Volume 53, Number 11 · June 22, 2006
Watch on the Rhine
By William H. McNeill
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
by David Blackbourn
Norton, 466 pp., $29.95
At the close of his introduction, David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University, summarizes his new book as follows:
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