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One of the most powerful nationalist ideas in modern Europe is the assertion that there is a link between people and their landscape. Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era to illuminate the relationship between environmental reform and the cultural construction of national identity. In the late nineteenth century, anxieties about national character infused ecological concerns about industrialization, spurring landscape preservationists to protect the natural environment. In the Rhineland’s scenic rivers, forests, and natural landmarks, they saw Germany as a timel...
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The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
A catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.