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- Turning to Nature in Germany : Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation,
- ISBN
- 9780804700153
- Subject Area
- Nature, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
- Publication Name
- Turning to Nature in Germany : Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940
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- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Europe / Germany, Modern / 20th Century, Social History, Hiking
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- 2007
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 0.6 in
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- 22 Oz
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
080470015X
ISBN-13
9780804700153
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25038829542
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Number of Pages
368 Pages
Publication Name
Turning to Nature in Germany : Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Europe / Germany, Modern / 20th Century, Social History, Hiking
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Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
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Hardcover
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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9 in
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6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2007-023694
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22
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" [Turning to Nature in Germany ] offers a valuable corrective to long-held assumptions about nature movements in Germany . . . [It] is a fine contribution to the scholarship on nature movements, German culture, and youth. Unlike many other works on twentieth-century Germany, it manages to show continuities across the major milestones of 1914, 1918, and 1933. Beyond an admirable ability to move across historical breaks, Williams manages to make cogent connections to broader cultural phenomena, especially sexuality. In grouping nudism, youth, and conservation together, he creates fertile connections and promotes a deeper understanding of the role of nature in German society."-Jason Tebbe, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, "Williams offers valuable new insights . . . revealing some striking similarities but also some important differences in the way in which class impacted on German attitudes to nature."--Matthew Jefferies, University of Manchester, " Turning to Nature in Germany makes an important argument about the normality of German history and about not interpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent—densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued."—Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries. Turning to Nature argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism."--Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Williams offers valuable new insights . . . revealing some striking similarities but also some important differences in the way in which class impacted on German attitudes to nature."--Matthew Jefferies, University of Manchester "Joining the chorus of recent works that have as their center analyses of the rich variety of reform movements of the late Wilhelmine Empire is a fine contribution by John Alexander Williams. In this book Williams combines several historiographical trends that explore the nuance, fragility, and potential of early twentieth-century reform movements."-- American Historical Review "Williams offers valuable new insights on both revealing some striking similarities but also some important differences in the way in which class impacted on Cerman attitudes to nature."-- German History, "This study . . . is about hiking and forms the most nuanced analysis that has appeared so far--since George Mosse and Walter Laqueur started looking at the youth movement in the 1960s. Although the Wandervogel have been covered extensively before, Williams adds fresh detail."--Geoffrey Giles, German Studies Review, " [Turning to Nature in Germany ] offers a valuable corrective to long-held assumptions about nature movements in Germany . . . [It] is a fine contribution to the scholarship on nature movements, German culture, and youth. Unlike many other works on twentieth-century Germany, it manages to show continuities across the major milestones of 1914, 1918, and 1933. Beyond an admirable ability to move across historical breaks, Williams manages to make cogent connections to broader cultural phenomena, especially sexuality. In grouping nudism, youth, and conservation together, he creates fertile connections and promotes a deeper understanding of the role of nature in German society."--Jason Tebbe, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries. Turning to Nature argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism."-Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Williams offers valuable new insights...revealing some striking similarities but also some important differences in the way in which class impacted on German attitudes to nature." —Matthew Jefferies, University of Manchester, ""Turning to Nature in Germany" makes an important argument about the normality of German history and about "not" interpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent--densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued." --Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, "Turning to Nature in Germanymakes an important argument about the normality of German history and aboutnotinterpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent-densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued." -Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, " Turning to Nature in Germany makes an important argument about the normality of German history and about not interpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent--densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued."--Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, "This study...is about hiking and forms the most nuanced analysis that has appeared so far--since George Mosse and Walter Laqueur started looking at the youth movement in the 1960s. Although theWandervogelhave been covered extensively before, Williams adds fresh detail."--Geoffrey Giles,German Studies Review, "This study...is about hiking and forms the most nuanced analysis that has appeared so far--since George Mosse and Walter Laqueur started looking at the youth movement in the 1960s. Although the Wandervogel have been covered extensively before, Williams adds fresh detail."—Geoffrey Giles, German Studies Review, The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries. Turning to Nature argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health thro|9780804700153|, "[ Turning to Nature in Germany ] offers a comprehensive overview of reform, youth, and nature movements in Germany during the first four decades of the twentieth century with a thematic focus on three areas: nudism, youth hiking, and nature conservatism . . . John Alexander Williams has written an engaging and nuanced book that deserves a broad readership."--Carl Niekerk, Monatshefte, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries.Turning to Natureargues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism."--Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries.Turning to Natureargues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism."-Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Williams offers valuable new insights on both revealing some striking similarities but also some important differences in the way in which class impacted on Cerman attitudes to nature."-- German History, " [Turning to Nature in Germany ] offers a valuable corrective to long-held assumptions about nature movements in Germany . . . [It] is a fine contribution to the scholarship on nature movements, German culture, and youth. Unlike many other works on twentieth-century Germany, it manages to show continuities across the major milestones of 1914, 1918, and 1933. Beyond an admirable ability to move across historical breaks, Williams manages to make cogent connections to broader cultural phenomena, especially sexuality. In grouping nudism, youth, and conservation together, he creates fertile connections and promotes a deeper understanding of the role of nature in German society."—Jason Tebbe, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, "Joining the chorus of recent works that have as their center analyses of the rich variety of reform movements of the late Wilhelmine Empire is a fine contribution by John Alexander Williams. In this book Williams combines several historiographical trends that explore the nuance, fragility, and potential of early twentieth-century reform movements." — American Historical Review, "This study . . . is about hiking and forms the most nuanced analysis that has appeared so far--since George Mosse and Walter Laqueur started looking at the youth movement in the 1960s. Although the Wandervogel have been covered extensively before, Williams adds fresh detail."—Geoffrey Giles, German Studies Review, "Williams offers valuable new insights...revealing some striking similarities but also some important differences in the way in which class impacted on German attitudes to nature." --Matthew Jefferies, University of Manchester, " "Turning to Nature in Germany" makes an important argument about the normality of German history and about "not" interpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent-- densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued." -- Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, "Joining the chorus of recent works that have as their center analyses of the rich variety of reform movements of the late Wilhelmine Empire is a fine contribution by John Alexander Williams. In this book Williams combines several historiographical trends that explore the nuance, fragility, and potential of early twentieth-century reform movements." --American Historical Review, "[ Turning to Nature in Germany ] offers a comprehensive overview of reform, youth, and nature movements in Germany during the first four decades of the twentieth century with a thematic focus on three areas: nudism, youth hiking, and nature conservatism . . . John Alexander Williams has written an engaging and nuanced book that deserves a broad readership."-Carl Niekerk, Monatshefte, " The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany ' s passage to modernity than in other countries. Turning to Nature argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism. " -- Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "[ Turning to Nature in Germany ] offers a comprehensive overview of reform, youth, and nature movements in Germany during the first four decades of the twentieth century with a thematic focus on three areas: nudism, youth hiking, and nature conservatism . . . John Alexander Williams has written an engaging and nuanced book that deserves a broad readership."—Carl Niekerk, Monatshefte, Turning to Nature in Germany makes an important argument about the normality of German history and about not interpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad|9780804700153|, "Turning to Nature in Germanymakes an important argument about the normality of German history and aboutnotinterpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent-densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued."-Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, " Turning to Nature in Germany makes an important argument about the normality of German history and about not interpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent-densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued."-Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, " The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany' s passage to modernity than in other countries. "Turning to Nature" argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism." -- Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries. Turning to Nature argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism."--Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries.Turning to Natureargues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism." -Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries. "Turning to Nature" argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism." --Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Joining the chorus of recent works that have as their center analyses of the rich variety of reform movements of the late Wilhelmine Empire is a fine contribution by John Alexander Williams. In this book Williams combines several historiographical trends that explore the nuance, fragility, and potential of early twentieth-century reform movements."-- American Historical Review, " Turning to Nature in Germany makes an important argument about the normality of German history and about not interpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent -- densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued. " -- Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, "The symbolic as well as the practical role of nature was more significant in Germany's passage to modernity than in other countries. Turning to Nature argues that overlapping and competing movements attempted to restore the balance of health through nature as an antidote to urban ills. Williams advances an original argument, revisionist in thrust, that goes against oversimplifications that see all traditions logically ending in National Socialism."—Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Turning to Nature in Germanymakes an important argument about the normality of German history and aboutnotinterpreting the past in the dark light Nazism casts on it. Williams has a compelling perspective and incorporates a rich and broad range of historical research. His discussions of socialist hiking organizations and attitudes toward nature and youth hiking are really excellent--densely researched, beautifully organized, vigorously and persuasively argued."--Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, "This study . . . is about hiking and forms the most nuanced analysis that has appeared so far--since George Mosse and Walter Laqueur started looking at the youth movement in the 1960s. Although the Wandervogel have been covered extensively before, Williams adds fresh detail."-Geoffrey Giles, German Studies Review
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Turning to Nature in Germany traces the history of organized hiking, nudism, and conservation in the earlier twentieth century, showing how hundreds of thousands of Germans sought to find solutions to the nation's crises in nature, "Turning to Nature in Germany" traces the history of organized hiking, nudism, and conservation in the earlier twentieth century, showing how hundreds of thousands of Germans sought to find solutions to the nation's crises in nature, Turning to Nature in Germany is a study of mass movements that aimed to bring the German people into closer contact with nature. In the early twentieth century organized hikers, nudists, and conservationists all looked to nature for solutions to the nation's political crises. Following these movements over three political eras--the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich--the book shows how manifestations of popular culture reflected the concerns and hopes of their time. Williams breaks with historians who have long seen nature movements as anti-modern and irrational by arguing that naturists were calling not for Germany to turn back the clock, but for the nation to find a way to navigate the treacherous waters of contemporary life and strive toward a brighter future., "Turning to Nature in Germany" is a study of mass movements that aimed to bring the German people into closer contact with nature. In the early twentieth century organized hikers, nudists, and conservationists all looked to nature for solutions to the nation's political crises. Following these movements over three political eras--the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich--the book shows how manifestations of popular culture reflected the concerns and hopes of their time. Williams breaks with historians who have long seen nature movements as anti-modern and irrational by arguing that naturists were calling not for Germany to turn back the clock, but for the nation to find a way to navigate the treacherous waters of contemporary life and strive toward a brighter future.
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