Modern Natures: Conflicts and Transformation
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2EH421
Main group 1
- 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)
- 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)
- Guldi, Jo; Armitage, David, The history manifesto, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014Compulsory (Page 1–164)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Krueger, Rob; Gibbs, David, The sustainable development paradox: urban political economy in the United States and Europe, New York, Guilford Press, cop. 2007Compulsory
Further articles of approx. 500 pages as per instruction by the teacher
* Compulsory