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Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- World history --- Natural disasters --- Disaster relief --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Emergency management --- Human services --- Natural calamities --- Disasters
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Das Werk des Schweizer Theologen und Poeten Kurt Marti (*1921) gehört zu den vielgestaltigsten der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Die Verbindung von Überliefertem und spielerischem Brechen von Traditionen, von mundartlicher Bodenständigkeit und weltläufiger Zeitkritik, von biblischen Elementen und Sprachexperiment ist charakteristisch für Martis Oeuvre, in das die vorliegende Arbeit eine umfassende Werkeinführung bietet. Mit seinen an Mustern der konkreten Poesie orientierten "Gedichten in Berner Umgangssprache" wurde Marti zum literarischen Neuerer der schweizerischen Mundartdichtung, die über Generationen auf Helvetisch-Nationales und Bäuerlich-Provinzielles ausgerichtet war. In einem kritisch-essayistischen Diskurs plädiert Marti für eine neuartige "theologische Literaturästhetik", die aus den Sackgassen der sog. "christlichen Literatur" herausführt. Diese Forderung löst er in zahlreichen Verstexten ein, in denen klassische kirchliche Formen ostentativ umgewandelt und sprachspielend neuen Redezwecken dienstbar gemacht werden. Durch die permanente Verknüpfung von Selbstaussage, Analyse, Vergleichen sowie dem der kritischen Abgrenzung dienenden Rekurs auf politische Literaturtheorien und den Kontext der Schweizer Literaturgeschichte wird die Spezifik von Martis Texten (Gedichten und Tagebüchern) deutlich. Unter den Kategorien 'Traditions-Aufhebung' (im Hegelschen Sinn), 'Offenheit' (im Anschluß an Umberto Eco), Konkretisation und Prediger-Poet versucht diese Arbeit, das Unverwechselbare des Martischen Verfahrens zu erfassen.
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Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field of environmental history; in no other country has the landscape been so thoroughly politicized throughout its past as in Germany,and in no other country have ideas of 'nature' figured so centrally in notions of national identity. The essays collected in this volume — the first collection on the subject in either English or German — place discussions of nature and the human relationship with nature in their political co texts. Taken together, they trace the gradual shift from a confident belief in humanity ’s ability to tame and manipulate the natural realm to the Umweltbewußtsein driving the contemporary conservation movement. Nature in German History also documents efforts to reshape the natural realm in keeping with ideological beliefs — such as the Romantic exultation of 'the wild' and the Nazis' attempts to eliminate 'foreign' flora and fauna — as well as the ways in which political issues have repeatedly been transformed into discussions of the environment in Germany.
Sociology of environment --- History of Germany and Austria --- Human ecology --- Philosophy of nature --- Human beings --- Geographical perception --- History. --- Effect of environment on --- Philosophy. --- Germany --- Environmental conditions. --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Social aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- Philosophy --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- Gėrman --- German Uls --- Герман Улс --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire
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Paradise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country's paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading German historian who has spent many years in the US and in this book he attempts, from a European perspective, to grasp the diversity of American culture and the transformation of its environments, combining travel reporting with nature writing, personal observation and philosophical reflection. Mauch seeks the familiar in unfamiliar places and the curious in places that seem common and well-known. The journey begins in tiny Wiseman, Alaska and the final portrait is of Portland, Oregon, famously America's most sustainable city. In between, Mauch's wanderings in space and time, his serendipitous and planned encounters with places and people, bring to light the tension and ambivalence in most Americans' attitudes towards their often-perilous environment, the intertwining throughout history of valuation, conservation and destruction. Interactions between human beings and the environment have settled like sediment down the centuries and may be read in the present - in the form of landscapes and collective memory, in bodies of water and the earth's strata, tree rings and human cells. One of Mauch's dominant themes is that the grand hopes and bitter disappointments of the American paradise are not equally distributed - the blues is the voice of the dispossessed and disadvantaged; and here environmental injustice toward Black, Indigenous and other marginalised people is a recurring and haunting motif. This is a book of melancholia and hope - Mauch exposes the beauty, the imperilment, at times the wreckage, of the American environment. And he shows us that, more powerfully than abstract ideas, governmental edicts or technological forces, stories reveal the infinite discoveries to be made in humans' relationship to nature - in beautiful landscapes where danger lurks as well as in visions and behaviours that change the world and ecosystems. Above all, stories demonstrate that where we come from and where we are going are intimately connected and therefore nothing has to remain as it is. The stories told in Paradise Blues demonstrate that vulnerabilities and pressures are almost always political constructions and, for that reason, it must be possible to deconstruct them.
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Anti-Nazi movement --- Sources --- Hitler, Adolf --- Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20) --- Sources. --- United States.
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