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Author Treitel, Corinna, author

Title Eating nature in modern Germany : food, agriculture, and environment, c.1870 to 2000 / Corinna Treitel, Washington University in St. Louis
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages)
Contents Hunger, citizenship, and the gospel of nature -- Being natural -- Nature and the nutrition question in Imperial and Weimar Germany -- Humans are only plants in nature's garden: remarking German agriculture, 1870-1939 -- Nature and the Nazi diet -- Mainstreaming nature, pursuing health: food and the environmental turn in West Germany -- Masking nature, prescribing health: the East German experience
Summary 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
A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Natural foods -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Natural foods -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Nutrition -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Nutrition -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Diet -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Diet -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
COOKING -- General.
Diet
Natural foods
Nutrition -- Social aspects
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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