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Familiarity with new approaches in environmental history and its neighboring fields as well as with recent theoretical discussions

The prolific environmental historian Frank Uekötter has recently presented a monumental environmental history of the modern world, “The Vortex”. As part of the course, we will read and analyze his ambitious work in connection with earlier global environmental histories (e.g. Joachim Radkau’s “Natur und Macht” or John McNeill’s “Something New under the Sun”) as well as accompanying contemporary sources.

Seminar discussions, oral and written presentations by participants.

Oral and written presentations.

Frank Uekötter: Im Strudel. Eine Umweltgeschichte der modernen Welt. Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2020.
Accompanying literature and sources to be discussed at the outset of the course.

Positive assessment of compulsory module 1

Online registration necessary!