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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Corey David Ross (corey.ross@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Over the past three decades, historians become increasingly interested in reconstructing the past on a global scale. At same time, they have increasingly turned attention to the relations between human societies and biophysical environments, and how efforts to subjugate nature in the past have shaped the environmental predicaments that we currently face today. In this course, we will examine the environmental dimensions and consequences of some of the central themes in modern world history, including imperialism, industrialization, capitalism, mass consumption, urbanization, and warfare. We will also consider some of the major issues of modern environmental history, such as energy transitions, pollution, conservation, the rise of environmental movements, and climate. Throughout the course, we will trace these developments in relation to evolving power structures, cultural values, social hierarchies and ideas about the environment. Focusing particularly (but not exclusively) on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the course will enable students to understand not only how human activities have reshaped the global environment, but also how environmental factors shaped modern world history. |
| Lernziele | The lecture provides an insight into the latest debates in environmental and global history. Students will learn about the empirical foundation of historical assertions and the methodologies employed to examine the role of environmental and ecological factors on historical processes. Students will also gain a clearer understanding of how the past still shapes environmental problems and debates today. |
| Literatur | John McNeill, Something new under the sun: an environmental history of the twentieth-century world (2000). Robert Marks, The origins of the modern world: a global and ecological narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century (2007). K. Pomeranz, E. Burke (eds), The environment and world history (2009). Joachim Radkau, Nature and power: a global history of the environment (2008). Optional literature: Frank Uekötter: The Vortex: An environmental history of the modern world (2023). Alfred Crosby, Ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1986, 2004). Corey Ross, Ecology and power in the age of empire (2017). |
| Weblink | Europainstitut |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Via MOnA. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 10.15-12.00 | Vesalianum Seiteneingang, Grosser Hörsaal (EO.16) |
| Module |
Modul: Areas: Europa Global (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Basis Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Resources and Sustainability (Master Studiengang: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources ) Modul: Synthese (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Leistungsnachweis |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,5 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Universität Basel |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Europainstitut |