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Title:

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

Publisher:

Lit,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ii, 98 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--History--Congresses.
Climatology--History--Congresses.
Land use--History--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Knoll, Martin, editor.
Reith, Reinhold, editor.
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, host institution.

Notes:

"This volume documents the proceedings of an exploratory workshop hosted by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, in February 2011"--Page 1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-95).

Contents:

Balancing between reconstructing past climate and human dimensions of destructive weather : the crux and challenge of historical climatology / Christian Pfister -- 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 -- The environmental history of rivers in the early modern period / Martin Schmid -- Water, environmental history and future research : some methodological remarks / Salvatore Ciriacono -- The forest as a topic of environmental history / Reinhold Reith -- Ecology, religion, human retreat, and global imagination : some research perspectives on the history of woodlands in early modern Central Europe / Richard H©œlzl -- From "urban gap" to social metabolism : the early modern city in environmental history research / Martin Knoll -- Environmental perspectives on pre-modern European cities : difficulties and possibilities / Georg St©œger -- Land use and agrarian knowledge as topics of early-modern environmental history / Verena Winiwarter -- Knowledge and perception of mountains in history : new perspectives for research / Simona Boscani Leoni -- Land use, agricultural knowledge and landscape perception as topics for early modern environmental history / Marcus Popplow.

Series:

Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft. Geschichte

ISBN:

3643904630
9783643904638

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870427400

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)