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
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