Turning to Nature in Germany : Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1, Hardcover by Williams, John Alexander, ISBN 080470015X, ISBN-13 9780804700153, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Williams (history, Bradley U., Illinois) describes how naturalist and nudist movements arose from workers and socialist movements in Germany as people sought relief from the unrelenting urbanization and industrialization of the early 20th century. The central section traces organized youth hiking through youth cultivators and moral panic, the tension between authority and freedom, and the assault on it. The final section details how the movement was taken over by bourgeois conservationists and the Third Reich. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()