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David Blackbourn

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

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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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