David Blackbourn

David Blackbourn’s books include The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany. He teaches at Harvard.

In the LRB Archive:

• Great Man: Humboldt · 16 June 2011

  • Nature’s Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt by Donald McCrory

• In the Opposite Direction: Enzensberger · 25 March 2010

  • The Silences of Hammerstein by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Martin Chalmers

• Black Legends: Prussia · 16 November 2006

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

• More Reconciliation than Truth: Germany’s Postwar Amnesties · 31 October 2002

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

• In Icy Baltic Waters: Gunter Grass · 27 June 2002

  • Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle by Günter Grass

• The Prodigal Century: Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century by John McNeill · 7 June 2001

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

• The Greatest Warlord: Hitler · 22 March 2001

  • Hitler, 1936-45: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw

• Bitter as never before: Einstein · 3 February 2000

  • Einstein's German World by Fritz Stern

• How Wicked – Horrid: Two Duff Kings · 15 July 1999

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

• No Fun: Heinrich and Thomas Mann · 15 October 1998

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

• How was it for you? · 30 October 1997

  • Man Without a Face: The Memoirs of a Spymaster by Markus Wolf and Anne McElvoy
  • The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash

• Axeman as Ballroom Dancer · 17 July 1997

  • Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987 by Richard J. Evans

• ‘Famous for its Sausages’ · 2 January 1997

  • The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Writers and the Problem of Power, 1770-1871 by Gordon A. Craig

• When in Bed · 19 October 1995

  • Reflections on a Life by Norbert Elias
  • The Civilising Process by Norbert Elias

• Uses for Horsehair · 9 February 1995

  • Duelling: The Cult of Honour in Fin-de-Siècle Germany by Kevin McAleer

• Theme-Park Prussia · 24 November 1994

  • Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea by Giles MacDonogh

• Nazi Votes · 1 November 1984

  • The Nazi Machtergreifung edited by Peter Stachura
  • Stormtroopers: A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis 1929-35 by Conan Fischer
  • The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders 1919-1945 by Michael Kater
  • Beating the Fascists: The German Communists and Political Violence 1929-1933 by Eve Rosenhaft

• The Big Show · 3 March 1983

  • ‘Hitler’: A Film from Germany by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, with an introduction Susan Sontag

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