Christof Mauch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christof Mauch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christof |
| FAMILY NAME | Mauch |
| SIGNATURE | MAUCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4017-1467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From the globe to the planet? New challenges of global and environmental history
From the Globe to the Planet? New Challenges of Global and Environmental History
International audience
Disappearing reeds on Chongming Island
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 reveals the paradox of ecological destruction through eco-development in China. Based on data collecte…
Imagining Rivers
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 Culture (1995) marked the first major attempt to understand the green tradition of environmental wr…
Geschichte der USA
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 verändert hat und zu einer Neubewertung der Rolle der USA als Weltmacht Anlass gibt. Besondere Beachtun…
What are the environmental humanities? And what is the secret of their appeal
Towards a New Biogeographical and Economic History of the Indian Ocean World
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
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, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Fragen An Christof Mauch
Are cities sustainable? A discussion of urban metabolism in Europe, past and future
The Legacy of Agent Orange
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 herbicide have met with such little concern in the international arena. Agent Orange got its name from…
Anticipating Total War
Paths of Continuity
Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000
Medicine and Modernity
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, February 2013
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Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, August 2013
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Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, May 2013
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Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, November 2013
Which World Is with Us? A Tocquevillian View on American Environmental History
The world" is not something "out there," something separate from human actors; "the world [is] with us," according to Paul Sutter.The title of his article perfectly captures the shift toward "hybridity" in American environmental history."Man and nature" and nature and culture are no longer polar opposites; over the last few decades they have merged in environmental historians' understanding.Sutter has done an excellent job of reviewing the litera…
Der Mensch als Gast der Borgias Rachel Carsons Silent Spring aus historischer Sicht
In Silent Spring, einem der einflussreichsten Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts, deckte die Autorin Rachel Carson auf, wie vom Menschen hergestellte Chemi kalien im Boden sowie in Pflanzen, Tieren und Menschen fort bestehen. Über die Auswir kungen des Buchs wurde häufig speku liert. Fest steht, dass es eine schärfe re Umweltgesetzgebung bewirkt und die Umwelt bewegung ins Rollen gebracht hat
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, February 2012
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, August 2012
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, May 2012. Environmental History in Estonia
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, November 2012
Weber's Protestant Ethic
The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws …
Uncertain Environments
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 of Environment and History all stress the fact, however, that environmental risk is not simply a ph…
Disappearing reeds on Chongming Island
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 reveals the paradox of ecological destruction through eco-development in China. Based on data collecte…
From the Globe to the Planet? New Challenges of Global and Environmental History
International audience
Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922
One of the largest twentieth-century summit meetings, the Genoa Conference of 1922, was a notable failure, due to the gulf between the Allies and Germany, between the West and Soviet Russia, and among the World War I victors and their small allies. This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference: its leadership, goals, and outcome. The authors present new findings on such questions as the sen…
Weber's Protestant Ethic
The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws …
In and out of the Ghetto
During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …
American Intelligence Warfare against Germany
Journal Article Geheimdienstkrieg gegen Deutschland: Subversion, Propaganda, undpolitische Planungen des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes im Zweiten Weltkrieg (American intelligence warfare against Germany: Subversion, propaganda, and political planning by the Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War) Get access Manfred Jonas Manfred Jonas Union College, Schenectady, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Forced Migration and Scientific Change
The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised. The volume challenges the focus of earl…
Institutions of Confinement
A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference held in 1992 by the German Historical Institute that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias. Seventeen contributors from six different countries with ba…
American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler
Identity and Intolerance
In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether a…
Dictatorship in history and theory
Dictatorship in History and Theory
A distinguished group of historians and political theorists examine the complex relationship between nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, paying especial attention to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck. An important contribution of the book is to consider not only the momentous episodes of coup d'etat, revolution, and imperial foundation which the Napoleonic era heralded, but also the contested politica…
Berlin - Washington, 1800–2000
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. Such issues such stand in the centre of this volume. The authors ask what these two capitals have …
Shades of Green
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term 'environmentalism' covers an entire range of perceptions, values and interests. It demonstrates that each instance of environmental activism is shaped by historically unique circumstances…
Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses
Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people are directly affected by natural disasters_seven times the number of people who are affected by war. Discussions about global warming and fatal disasters such as Katrina and the Tsunami of 2004 have heightened our awareness of natural disasters and of their impact on both local and global …
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, November 2010
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, August 2010
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, May 2010
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, February 2010
Uncertain Environments
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 of Environment and History all stress the fact, however, that environmental risk is not simply a ph…
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, May 2011
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, November 2011
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, February 2011
Der Mensch als Gast der Borgias Rachel Carsons Silent Spring aus historischer Sicht
In Silent Spring, einem der einflussreichsten Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts, deckte die Autorin Rachel Carson auf, wie vom Menschen hergestellte Chemi kalien im Boden sowie in Pflanzen, Tieren und Menschen fort bestehen. Über die Auswir kungen des Buchs wurde häufig speku liert. Fest steht, dass es eine schärfe re Umweltgesetzgebung bewirkt und die Umwelt bewegung ins Rollen gebracht hat
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, February 2012
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, August 2012
Eseh Notepad
Notepad of the European Society for Environmental History, May 2012. Environmental History in Estonia
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