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How Wicked and Horrid

David Blackbourn

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

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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.

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