Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 512
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Geography and landscape have long played a central role in the American imagination. The Puritans saw the landscape of the New World as a wilderness to be transformed; transcendentalist writers such as Emerson and Thoreau saw it as part of the sublime and a site of mystical communion with God; historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the United States' vast open frontier determined its entire history; and postcolonial scholarship has exposed the links between environmental exploitation and social oppression. Based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources we will explore key issues in American environmental history, a field that has largely emerged in the last half century. Chronologically, we will focus on three key turning points in U.S. environmental history: the arrival of Europeans on American shores, the rationalization of space in the wake of the American Revolution, and the rise of consumer society since the late nineteenth century. Our thematic foci will be agricultural and industrial transformations, environmental policies and state-building, the rise of ecological thinking, and urbanism. The overall objective is to highlight the ways in which environmental history changes our understanding of American history.
Zusätzliche Informationen: Course Title: American Landscapes: Nature and Environment in U.S. History Course on "History of Ideas" will not run this semester. It is not suitable for digital teaching. Thus Professor Schäfer changed the course to "Nature and Environment". Probably teaching material will be set up in Moodle.
