An environmental history of the early modern period : experiments and perspectives / edited by Martin Knoll and Reinhold Reith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knoll, Martin, editor.

Reith, Reinhold, editor.

Series:

Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft. Geschichte ; Bd. 10.

Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft. Geschichte ; [Bd. 10]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources--History.

Natural resources.

Human ecology--History.

Human ecology.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ii, 98 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zurich : Lit Verlag, [2014]

Summary:

The environmental history of early modern times is a seminal and lively field of historical research. This volume offers ten concise essays providing readers with an overview of current research debates on a broad span of topics such as historical climatology and climate reconstruction, coping with disaster, land use and agricultural knowledge, forest history, urbanization as well as the perceptions of (alpine) nature, and societal dealing with water and rivers. Taken together, the contributions establish early modern studies as a promising laboratory for new avenues in environmental history. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Dealing with Past Climates

Balancing between Reconstructing Past Climate and Human Dimensions of Destructive Weather. The Crux and Challenge of Historical Climatology / Christian Pfister Pfister, Christian 5

II Dealing with Disasters

Common Grounds in Early Modern Disaster Experiences? Some Remarks on New Trends in Historical Disaster Research as Part of Environmental History and Climate History / Gerrit Jasper Schenk Schenk, Gerrit Jasper 11

III Societies and Aquatic Environments

The Environmental History of Rivers in the Early Modern Period / Martin Schmid Schmid, Martin 19

Water, Environmental History and Future Research. Some Methodological Remarks / Salvatore Ciriacono Ciriacono, Salvatore 27

IV Early Modern Forests

The Forest as a Topic of Environmental History / Reinhold Reith Reith, Reinhold 33

Ecology, Religion, Human Retreat, and Global Imagination: Some Research Perspectives on the History of Woodlands in Early Modern Central Europe / Richard Hölzl Hölzl, Richard 37

V Cities and Hinterlands

From "Urban Gap" to Social Metabolism - the Early Modern City in Environmental History Research / Martin Knoll Knoll, Martin 45

Environmental Perspectives on Pre-Modern European Cities - Difficulties and Possibilities / Georg Stöger Stöger, Georg 51

VI Landuse - Perception - Knowledge

Land Use and Agrarian Knowledge as Topics of Early-Modern Environmental History / Verena Winiwarter Winiwarter, Verena 55

Knowledge and Perception of Mountains in History: New Perspectives for Research / Simona Boscani Leoni Leoni, Simona Boscani 61

Land Use, Agricultural Knowledge and Landscape Perception as Topics for Early Modern Environmental History / Marcus Popplow Popplow, Marcus 67.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3643904630

9783643904638

OCLC:

870427400

Publisher Number:

99960362158