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This contribution features a transatlantic conversation between Christof Mauch, environmental historian and Americanist from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and Lawrence Buell, literary scholar and “pioneer” of Ecocriticism from Harvard University. Buell’s The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American...
This paper critically examines current ecological development planning and practice in China through an environmental microhistory approach. By tracing the gradual disappearance of an indigenous plant – the common reed (Phragmites australis) – on Chongming Island in Shanghai, which is known for the grand Eco-Islands development plan, this paper rev...
Die Neuauflage des Klassikers zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten bietet einen Überblick der Ereignisse und Entwicklungen bis ins Jahr 2020. Sozial- und kulturgeschichtliche Themen treten neben die Darstellung von Politik, Wirtschaft und Verfassung vor dem Hintergrund einer weltpolitischen Lage, die sich in den letzten 20 Jahren entscheidend ver...
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do...
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area,...
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century - edited by Christof Mauch
Even paranoids have enemies. Hitler’s most powerful foes were the Allied powers, but he also feared internal conspiracies bent on overthrowing his malevolent regime. In fact, there was a small but significant internal resistance to the Nazi regime, and it did receive help from the outside world. Through recently declassified intelligence documents,...
Conversation between US historian and pharmacist Amy Hay, political activist and freelance trainer Nga Le, who grew up in Germany and was born in Vietnam, and Christian Lahnstein, a member of an international reinsurance company. The discussion centers on the destructive force of Agent Orange and the fact that the impact and consequences of this he...
Natural catastrophes are not just sudden events; they are also embedded in historical patterns of vulnerability and resilience. In modern societies, risk is one of the most important principles applied to the challenges that natural hazards pose and insurance is an ever more important tool of risk management. The contributions to this special issue...
This 2006 collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as collective symbols, with ambitions and contradictions that mirror the nation-states they represent...
This 2006 collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as collective symbols, with ambitions and contradictions that mirror the nation-states they represent...
Christof Mauch will provide a brief overview over the different ways in which the Atlantic has been constructed in history and historiography. He will discuss different types of historical transfes as well as political, economic and cultural concepts in understanding transatlantic spaces. Special emphasis will be given to ideologies that have shape...
In Traveling between Worlds, six authors explore the connectedness between Germans and Americans in the nineteenth century and their mutual impact on transatlantic history. Despite the ocean between them, these two groups of people were linked not only by the emigration from one to the other but also by ongoing interactions, especially among their...
During the American War of Independence, Britain employed the help of the Hessian mercenaries in order to suppress the "Rebel Colonists." On the basis of military enlistment records, numerous diary entries, and personal testimonies of the hired soldiers, this article explores the images and ideas of America held by the mercenaries upon their arriva...
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