William H Rollins
Biographic Data
| ID | 5122241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Rollins |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rollins |
| SIGNATURE | ROLLINS W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reflections on a Spare Tire
This article identifies sport utility vehicles (SUVs) with postmodern developments in industrial society, automobile manufacturing and marketing, land use, and the environment. A historical backdrop demonstrates links between vehicular systems and conceptions of nature protection: nineteenth-century rail produced monuments at discrete points, whereas the modernist automobile culture of the 1930s–1950s separated nature and urban civilization and c…
A Greener Vision of Home. Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918
A Greener Vision of Home
Rollins, William H. A Greener Vision of Home. Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P 1997. 332 pp. $54.50. William Rollins's A Greener Vision of Home is an audacious study of the German environmental movement that formed during the first two decades of the twentieth century under the name of Heimatschutz. Predominantly an organization of the educated class that by 1914…
Imperial Shades of Green
Whose Landscape?Technology, Fascism, and Environmentalism on the National Socialist Autobahn
The paper discusses environmentalist aspects of the landscaping on the German Autobahn during the Nazi era. Authorship of the landscape is a key theoretical issue, for the work stemmed from a group of landscape architects whose goals, while unfortunately not in conflict with the political objectives of the regime, were by no means identical with or reducible to “National Socialism.” The tradition of the landscape garden was important here, but an…
Whose Landscape?Technology, Fascism, and Environmentalism on the National Socialist Autobahn
The paper discusses environmentalist aspects of the landscaping on the German Autobahn during the Nazi era. Authorship of the landscape is a key theoretical issue, for the work stemmed from a group of landscape architects whose goals, while unfortunately not in conflict with the political objectives of the regime, were by no means identical with or reducible to “National Socialism.” The tradition of the landscape garden was important here, but an…
Reflections on a Spare Tire
This article identifies sport utility vehicles (SUVs) with postmodern developments in industrial society, automobile manufacturing and marketing, land use, and the environment. A historical backdrop demonstrates links between vehicular systems and conceptions of nature protection: nineteenth-century rail produced monuments at discrete points, whereas the modernist automobile culture of the 1930s–1950s separated nature and urban civilization and c…
Whose Landscape?Technology, Fascism, and Environmentalism on the National Socialist Autobahn
The paper discusses environmentalist aspects of the landscaping on the German Autobahn during the Nazi era. Authorship of the landscape is a key theoretical issue, for the work stemmed from a group of landscape architects whose goals, while unfortunately not in conflict with the political objectives of the regime, were by no means identical with or reducible to “National Socialism.” The tradition of the landscape garden was important here, but an…
A Greener Vision of Home
Rollins, William H. A Greener Vision of Home. Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P 1997. 332 pp. $54.50. William Rollins's A Greener Vision of Home is an audacious study of the German environmental movement that formed during the first two decades of the twentieth century under the name of Heimatschutz. Predominantly an organization of the educated class that by 1914…
Imperial Shades of Green
A Greener Vision of Home. Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918
Reflections on a Spare Tire
This article identifies sport utility vehicles (SUVs) with postmodern developments in industrial society, automobile manufacturing and marketing, land use, and the environment. A historical backdrop demonstrates links between vehicular systems and conceptions of nature protection: nineteenth-century rail produced monuments at discrete points, whereas the modernist automobile culture of the 1930s–1950s separated nature and urban civilization and c…
Aesthetics (4 works) · German (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works)