
Eating Nature in Modern Germany
Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000
- English
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- List of charts and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Translations and abbreviations
- Introduction
- 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
- 5 Nature and the Nazi Diet
- 6 Mainstreaming Nature, Pursuing Health
- 7 Masking Nature, Prescribing Health
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Selected Periodicals
- Appendix II: Selected Cookbooks and Nutritional Guides, 1869–1945
- Appendix III: Selected Institutions of Nutritional Research and Education
- Appendix IV: Biographical Information on Key Figures in Chapters 5, 6, and 7
- Appendix V: Supplementary Tables for Chapters 5, 6, and 7
- Selected Bibliography
- Index