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The Conquest of Nature

By David Blackbourn
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By David Blackbourn
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"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."—Ian Kershaw

Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn begins his morality tale in the mid-1700s, with the epic story of Frederick the Great, who attempted—by importing the great scientific minds of the West and by harnessing the power of his army—to transform the uninhabitable marshlands of his scattered kingdom into a mo...

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