| Plant Breeding and Agrarian Research in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes 1933-1945: Calories, Caoutchouc, Careers 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Heim, Susanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1402067178 ISBN-13: 9781402067174 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic strategies as well as expansion policy in Eastern Europe. It also offers new insights into the Auschwitz concentration camp. It outlines the Nazi??'s comprehensive nutritional and agricultural research program intended to prepare Germany for war by raising productivity through scientific means, researching the relation between nutrition and performance at the edge of starvation, and restructuring the agricultural economy of the continent. The book reveals the relation between science and power in Nazi Germany beyond the usual dichotomy that paints scientists in Nazi Germany either as victims of oppression or as sadistic beasts. It shows the involvement of a high ranking scientific elite in the Nazi regime of occupation and looting of cultural goods in the occupied eastern territories ??? largely for the sake of their own careers. The main audience the book addresses are students of history and the history of science, and anyone interested in the history of Nazi Germany. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Dewey: 630.72 |
| LCCN: 2007936989 |
| Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.36" W x 9.29" (1.15 lbs) 235 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany is presented in this book. The book analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic strategies, and the expansion policy in Eastern Europe. It offers new insights into the Auschwitz concentration camp and new perspectives on the cooperation between German elite scientists and the Nazi regime. The book goes on to dismiss the assumption that "Arian physics" were typical for Nazi Germany. |
