The Rhine

Informationen zum Autor Mark Cioc. Foreword by William Cronon Klappentext A new paper edition of the first book to examine the environmental history of the Rhine from its headwaters in the Swiss Alps to its delta in the Netherlands. Zusammenfassung The River Rhine is Europe's important commercial waterway! channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland! France! Germany! and the Netherlands. This study focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged with making the river more efficient for purposes of trade and commerce in 1815. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Europe's "World River" Water Sorcery The Carboniferous Rhine Sacrificing a River Biodiversity Lost A River Restored? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Mark Cioc. Foreword by William Cronon

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A new paper edition of the first book to examine the environmental history of the Rhine from its headwaters in the Swiss Alps to its delta in the Netherlands.

Résumé
The River Rhine is Europe's important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. This study focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged with making the river more efficient for purposes of trade and commerce in 1815.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Europe's "World River"

Water Sorcery

The Carboniferous Rhine

Sacrificing a River

Biodiversity Lost

A River Restored?

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index