Eating Nature in Modern Germany - Food, Agriculture and Environment, C.1870 to 2000

Informationen zum Autor Corinna Treitel is a historian at Washington University, St Louis. She is the author of A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern (2004), and has published articles in Central European History, Food and Foodways, Modern Intellectual History, and various edited volumes. She has received several major grants, including a year-long fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Massachusetts, a faculty research award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a mid-career fellowship from the Center for Humanities, Washington University. Klappentext A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850. Zusammenfassung A fascinating new account of eating naturally as an aspect of German biopolitics. Corinna Treitel explores the allure of vegetarianism! organic farming! and other such practices to 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Natural, a German history; 1. Hunger, citizenship, and the gospel of nature; 2. Being natural; 3. Nature and the nutrition question in Imperial and Weimar Germany; 4. Humans are only plants in nature's garden: remaking German agriculture, 1870-1939; 5. Nature and the Nazi diet; 6. Mainstreaming nature, pursuing health: food and the environmental turn in West Germany; 7. Masking nature, prescribing health: the East German experience; Conclusion. The natural temptation.

Product details

• Authors: Corinna Treitel, Corinna (Washington University Treitel, Treitel Corinna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107188020
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18802-0
• No. of pages: 402
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Healthy cuisine, light cuisine; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Fascism & Nazism, Food & society, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Cultural studies: food and society