Die Wahrheit ist auf dem Feld: Eine Wissensgeschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft
A history of German agricultural technologies and the environmental problems they have given rise to since the nineteenth century.
A history of German agricultural technologies and the environmental problems they have given rise to since the nineteenth century.
Der gezähmte Prometheus traces large fire catastrophes and the rise of the insurance business from its beginnings in fifteenth century Europe to its boom in nineteenth century globalized metropoles across the world.
Beschädigte Vegetation und sterbender Wald traces the history of the environmental problem of air pollution and its damaging effects on forests in Germany.
Euer Dorf soll schöner werden captures the transformation of Germany’s rural landscape through modernization between 1961 and 1979, through the inter-village contest, “Unser Dorf soll schöner werden” (“May our village become more beautiful”).
Frank Zelko’s study of Greenpeace is the first detailed study of the group’s history, from it’s origins as a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists to the influential organization it is today.
Die Natur der Gefahr traces the history of the Ohio river, its significance for trade and industry, and its flooding disasters between the late eighteenth century through to the twentieth century.
Schlangenlinien examines the history of the European Viper and the shift from extermination policies to those of protection and rehabilitation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Weltmeere examines society’s relationship with the oceans in the nineteenth century, through subjects such as whale fishing, polar expeditions, the sea in literature and psychology, and marine studies.
Die Hamburger Sturmflut von 1962 is an in-depth historical study of the 1962 storm flood that devastated Hamburg and Germany. It compares the flood to others in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while reflecting on the sociocultural and technological contexts of the time.
Projektion Natur is a collection of articles contextualising “green” genetic engineering within the debate about nature and society.