Call for Contributions:

Germany's Nature: New Directions
in the Environmental History
of Central Europe

We are soliciting contributions for an edited volume that will represent and expand recent scholarship in the environmental history of Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our focus will be on the environmental history of Germany's "cultural landscapes," particularly the relationship between representations of nature, political and social development, and ecological change. We are particularly interested in works that break with the traditional political chronology of German history and address neglected areas of research such as:

• The material and cultural history of landscape
• The changing face and meaning of rivers and waterways
• The environmental history of mountaineering and ecotourism
• Forestry as scientific discipline, instrument of state control, locus of culture
• Ideas and practices of spatial planning and resource management
• National versus regional approaches to environmental and Heimat protection Technological Systems and the Environment
• Urban environmental history

We would prefer essays that move beyond isolated case studies and address broader methodological and historical questions, preferably in a comparative context. Papers that connect environmental history to cultural history, the history of science and technology, or urban history will be particularly welcome. The continuities and discontinuities of environmentalism in its many manifestations will be given special attention.

Please send or fax a 250-word abstract to one of the addresses listed below by July 15, 2001, if you wish to have an essay considered for the volume.

Dr. Thomas Lekan
University of South Carolina
Department of History
Gambrell Hall 207
Columbia, SC 29205
Telephone: 803-777-5928 Fax: 803-777-4494
E-mail: Lekan@gwm.sc.edu

Dr. Thomas Zeller
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History and Sociology of Science
Logan Hall, Suite 303
249 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
Telephone: 215-898-8697=20 Fax: 215-573-2231
E-mail: tzeller@sas.upenn.edu