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Broadsheet: “The Great and Terrible Flood,” January 1651
Potrayal of the devastation caused by a massive flood along stretches of the Danube, Neckar, Main, and Rhein in January 1651.
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Freytag, Nils, “Deutsche Umweltgeschichte—Umweltgeschichte in Deutschland. Erträge und Perspektiven” [German environmental history—environmental history in Germany. Achievements and perspectives]
The German historian Nils Freytag traces the development of environmental history in Germany, paying special attention to forests and hunting, urban environments, and links to cultural history.
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"Wood and Forestry in German History: In Quest of an Environmental Approach"
The author discusses some conceptual problems of environmental history and their effect upon historiographical practice, with special reference to several open questions of German forest history.
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"The Impact of the Coal Age on the German Environment: A Review of the Historical Literature"
Without doubt the transformative moment came in the mid-nineteenth century, when the various German states began shifting from wood to coal as a fuel source to feed the new steam engines coming from Great Britain…
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"The Cultural Enframing of Nature: Environmental Histories during the Early German Romantic Period"
The introduction of histories of nature in the late eighteenth century posed the epistemological problem of how to bring the diversity of empirical laws into theoretical unity…
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Unter Kontrolle [Under Control]
This film provides insight into the secretive way of life behind the walls of German nuclear plants.
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Review of Die GRÜNEN im Bundestag: Sitzungsprotokolle 1983–1987, edited by Josef Boyer and Helge Heidemeyer
The author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment, Joachim Radkau, reviews this volume of the papers of the German green party, which covers the first term during which it was represented in the Bundestag.
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Villes et catastrophes: Réactions face a l'urgence dans l'histoire européenne
Covering a wide geographical range of European countries, the articles in this edited collection investigate urban disasters such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and epidemic diseases.
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The Management of Common Land in North West Europe, c. 1500–1850
This collection emphasizes that common lands were a key component of early-modern agriculture in many parts of northwest Europe.
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Agrarmodernisierung und Ökologische Folgen: Westfalen vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert
Most contributors to Agrarmodernisierung und Ökologische Folgen deal with the ecological consequences of farming and agriculture in twentieth-century Germany.