Eating nature in modern Germany : food, agriculture, and environment, c.1870 to 2000 /
A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017
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| Summary: | A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1316638391 1316946312 1316992543 1316992861 1316993183 1316993507 1316994465 9781316638392 9781316946312 9781316992548 9781316992869 9781316993187 9781316993507 9781316994467 |