Aims

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the Rachel Carson Center for Advanced Environmental Studies in Munich, Germany (Rachel Carson Center für Umwelt und Geschichte, RCC) have established, in conjunction with Berghahn Publishers (Oxford/New York), a series of books that investigate the interrelationship between human society and the natural world from a cultural and historical perspective. The main, but not sole, focus will be on the comparative, global history with particular attention to the environmental history of Europe.

            The series will complement the current predominance of American and British scholarship on global environmental history. As such, it will both reflect the considerable strength of current research on European environmental history, and will meet a real need among teachers of existing courses on the environmental history of Europe and those developing new courses.

            The series is designed to encourage a wide interdisciplinary approach to studies in environmental history. Themes will include perceptions and management of natural disasters, Europe’s contribution to the global environmental movement, weather extremes as a force in history, changing perspectives on landscape transformations, national traditions in designing national parks, perceptions on urban pollution,  interaction of environmental and technological sciences, and resources management. It will welcome studies that employ diverse forms of analysis and from all scholarly disciplines, including archaeology, history, history of science and technology, historical geography, social sciences (sociology, anthropology), and the natural sciences (ecology, biology).  Part of such books in the series could include translations from several European languages.

Submission of a manuscript

For more information contact Petra van Dam (pjem.van.dam@let.vu.nl) or any of the other three editors. On this website you also find the submission form, which can help you to identify the first information needed for submission (Please click on this link to access the submission form).

Editors

Petra van Dam, Christof Mauch, David Moon, Helmuth Trischler