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Correspondence: Correspondence may be addressed to Richard Bowler, Department of History, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21801. The author would like to express his gratitude to Jürgen Backhaus, Michael Bowler, Dean Fafoutis, Michael Lewis, Theodore Porter, Birger Priddat, and Keith Tribe, all of whom read early drafts of this article and provided valuable suggestions. Also, he would like to thank Peter Jelavich and the participants of the Baltimore-Washington Area German History Seminar held in fall, 2007, at Johns Hopkins University for a helpful discussion about the paper. Finally, he is grateful to Dr. Werner Moritz, the director of the Universitätsarchiv, Heidelberg, and Frau Gabriele Haupt, who were kind enough to make available to the author a copy of the Karl H. Rau Nachlaß.
At its inception in the early nineteenth century, political economy in the German territories offered a new science that explored the dynamic interrelationship between human activity and natural processes. An emphasis on the complexity of human needs and the efforts to satisfy them furnished the emerging discipline with a solid anthropological foundation. Nevertheless, German political economists recognized the significant role played by nature in shaping and sustaining the human economy, a recognition that informed their approach to economic science.
Key Words: political economy • Germany • nature • human science
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