Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City

by Kristin Poling

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany's many growing cities. Germany's Urban Frontiers is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946416
• ISBN13: 9780822946410
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"