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Welcome to the Future! Science as a Tool for American Geopolitics in 1950s’ Spain
After the Second World War, the United States built an R&D system with a large component of public funds and resources; this was consolidated during...
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Towards a Quantitative Turn: Frontiers of Architectural Historiography
This chapter extensively discusses the relationship between current trends in general historiography, especially “global” and “world history,” the...
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Labor Ipse Voluptas: Virtues of Work in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Hardly had Leopold von RankeVon Ranke, Leopold died in May 1886 when one of his former assistants, Theodor WiedemannWiedemann, Theodor, received a...
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Safeguarding the Integrity of the Village Form
In this chapter the author proposes a way of thinking about the integrity conservation of traditional villages. By introducing the survey method of...
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How LTER Site Communities Can Address Major Environmental Challenges
Long-term, place-based research programs in the National Science Foundation-supported Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network have had profound...
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Conclusion: Civil Defence Futures (Re)imagined
Reflecting on the individual studies of civil defence during the Cold War provided in this volume, this brief, concluding chapter performs three...
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Immortal Beloved: Virtue, Death, and the Making of the Swedish Nineteenth-Century Pedagogical Scholar
This article analyses the creation of a new template for pedagogical scholars during the early decades of the nineteenth century in Sweden, encased...
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Dyadic risk mechanisms–a nomenclature for 36 proto-cascading effects determining humanity’s future
Re-reading the risk literature, I sketch a novel nomenclature for 36 dyadic risk interactions that constitute the prototypes of what eventually...
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The Multispecies World of Oil Palm: Indigenous Marind Perspectives on Plantation Ecologies in West Papua
Drawing from long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua, this chapter examines how Indigenous Marind communities conceptualize interspecies...
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On Burgers’ Chair
A few notes on the scientific life of Professor Wilhelm (Willy) Burgers and the significant role of his brother Professor Johannes (Jan) Burgers. My...
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Unravelling Islanders’ Migration Stories
Migration stories engage people’s imagination. As migration communities mature and grow into intergenerational groups, their stories need to be told...
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The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental History
Beginning in the nineteenth century, scientists speculated that the Pleistocene megafauna—species such as the giant ground sloth, wooly mammoth, and...
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A Time of Crisis (1976–1982)
This chapter focuses on the effects of spreading salinization in the Goulburn–Murray Irrigation District’s rural communities in the Kerang and...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces readers to the animal welfare campaigner Ruth Harrison. It highlights her importance for the development of farm animal...
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Workshops of Hope: Comenius in the Anthropocene
We need, I believe, to realign science with the challenges of humanity. This aspiration may be understood as a revival of the early modern alliance...
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Introduction: The Implementation of the New Global History in China
Global History with Chinese Characteristics is the result of reflection and observation upon the meaning of global history in China during the last...
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Afterword
Graham Huggan’s afterword offers incisive reflections on the preceding chapters, as well as measured assessments of the challenges that are...
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Collections and Museums in the Historiography of the Earth Sciences
This chapter wants to show how museums and collections have been treated in recent historiographies of earth sciences as well as to examine the...
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Epochal Thinking and Anthropogenic Catastrophe
A new kind of epochal thinking is emerging against the backdrop of the perception that human capacities have increased to such an extent that...