Description
Traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe during the Cold War.
About the Author
Julia E. Ault is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Utah.
Reviews
'A major contribution to the environmental history of socialist East Germany, showing the GDR as an ecological link, but also as an environmental hazard, to its neighbors. Ault traces the flow of pollution, people, ideas, and data through Central Europe, thereby highlighting the entanglements of environments and environmental activism during and after the Cold War.' Astrid M. Eckert, author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain
'Critical for any Europeanist, Saving Nature under Socialism uses environmentalism to demonstrate the importance of East German popular activism both with and against the state-as well as with and against grassroots politics across Cold War Europe. Julia Ault's book is an important achievement on many terrains, and should be widely read.' Belinda Davis, Rutgers University
'For some years, East German historiography has been escaping the tired and limiting perspectives soldered into place by the misguided triumphalism of the 1990s. Focusing on the GDR's last two decades, on the seemingly unpromising ground of environmentalism, Julia Ault further deepens our grasp of this misperceived state-socialist project and its boundaries.' Geoffrey Eley, University of Michigan
Book Information
ISBN 9781316519141
Author Julia E. Ault
Format Hardback
Page Count 300
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 20mm