Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, C.1870 to 2000 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316638392)

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.

Author: Corinna Treitel
ISBN-10: 1316638391
ISBN-13: 9781316638392
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2020
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d