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David Blackbourn

David Blackbourn, whose Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany was reviewed in the LRB by Neal Ascherson, teaches history at Harvard.

Selected bibliography

  • The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany (2006)
  • History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long 19th Century (2002)
  • Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany (1993)
  • The German Bourgeoisie edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans (1991)
  • Populists and Patricians: Essays in Modern German History (1987)
  • The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in 19th-century Germany by David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley (1984)
  • Class, Religion and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Black Legends · 16 November 2006

  • Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark

subscriber-only content More Reconciliation than Truth · 31 October 2002

  • Adenauer’s Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration by Norbert Frei, translated by Joel Golb

subscriber-only content In Icy Baltic Waters · 27 June 2002

  • Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle by Günter Grass

The Prodigal Century · 7 June 2001

  • Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century by John McNeill

subscriber-only content The Greatest Warlord · 22 March 2001

  • Hitler, 1936-45: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Bitter as never before · 3 February 2000

  • Einstein's German World by Fritz Stern

 not available in archive How Wicked and Horrid · 15 July 1999

  • Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser’s Early Life, 1859-88 by John Röhl, translated by Jeremy Gaines

 not available in archive No Fun · 15 October 1998

  • Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-49 edited by Hans Wysling, translated by Don Reneau