Modern Natures: Conflicts and Transformation

Main group 1

• Brain, Stephen, The appeal of appearing green: Soviet-American ideological competition and Cold War environmental diplomacy, Part of: Cold War history, vol. 16, no. 4, 2016, p. 443–462Compulsory* (page 443–462)
• Davies, Mike, 'The Political Ecology of Famine', Part of: Late Victorian holocausts: El Niño famines and the making of the third world, London, Verso, 2001Compulsory* (Page 277–310)
• De Moor, Tine, Avoiding Tragedies: A Flemish Common and Its Commoners under the Pressure of Social and Economic Change during the Eighteenth Century, Part of: The economic history review, vol. 62, no. 1, 2009, p. 1–22, Link to articleCompulsory*
• Doel, Ronald E et al., Strategic Arctic science: national interests in building natural knowledge - interwar era through the Cold War, Part of: Journal of historical geography., vol. 44, 2014, p. 60–80Compulsory* (Page 60–80)
• Edwards, Paul N., A vast machine: computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, c2010Compulsory* (Page 1–25)
• Goudie, Andrew, The human impact on the natural environment: past, present, and future, 6th ed., Oxford, Blackwell, 2006Compulsory* (Chapter 1, introduction', page 7–22)
• Greer, Allan, Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America, Part of: The American historical review., vol. 117, no. 2, 2012, p. 365–386, Link to articleCompulsory*
• Guldi, Jo; Armitage, David, The history manifesto, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014Compulsory* (Page 1–164)
• Hölzl, Richard, Historicizing Sustainability: German Scientific Forestry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Part of: Science as culture., vol. 19, no. 4, 2010, p. 431–460, Link to articleCompulsory*
• Kander, Astrid; Malanima, Paolo; Warde, Paul, Power to the people: energy in Europe over the last five centuries, Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 2013Compulsory* (Page 1–386)
• Krueger, Rob, sustainable development paradox: urban political economy in the United States and Europe, 2007Compulsory* (Chapter 1, p. 13–40 Swyngedouw, E, "Impossible "Sustainability" and the Postpolitical Condition")
• Masco, Joseph, Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis, Part of: Social studies of science., vol. 40, no. 1, 2010, p. 7–40Compulsory*
• McNeill, John Robert; Unger, Corinna R., Environmental histories of the Cold War, Washington, D.C., German Historical Institute, 2010Compulsory* (Intro and closing chapters plus one chapter of your choice)
• Moore, Jason W., Sugar and the Expansion of the Early Modern World-Economy: Commodity Frontiers, Ecological Transformation, and Industrialization, Part of: Review - Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, vol. 23, no. 3, 2000, p. 409–433, Link to articleCompulsory*
• Mosley, Stephen, The environment in world history, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2010Compulsory* (Page 1–116. Also available as e-book.)
• Radkau, Joachim, Nature and power: a global history of the environment, 1. English ed., Washington, D.C., German Historical Institute, 2008Compulsory* (P. 1–112)
• Ribeiro, Sofia; Soromenho-Marques, Viriato, The Techno-Optimists of Climate Change: Science Communication or Technowashing?, Part of: Societies, vol. 12, no. 2, 2022, p. 64–75, Link to articleCompulsory*
• Räsänen, Tuomas; Laakkonen, Simo, Cold War and the Environment: The Role of Finland in International Environmental Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, Part of: Ambio: a journal of the human environment, vol. 36, no. 2, 2007, p. 229–236Compulsory* (page 229–236)
• Scott, James C., Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, cop. 1998Compulsory*

* Compulsory