The Turning Points of Environmental History

Contributors

The First One Hundred Thousand Years List of Contributors Jens Ivo engels is a professor of modern and contemporary history at Technische Universität in Darmstadt, Germany. His books include Northern Europe: An Environmental History (2005, with Tamara L. Whited, Richard C. Hoffmann, Hilde Ibsen, and Wybren Verstegen) and Naturpolitik in der Bundesrepublik : Ideenwelt und politische Verhaltensstile in Naturschutz und Umweltbewegung , 1950–1980 (2006). Deborah FItzgeralD is a professor in the History of Technology Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. Her books include Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (2003) and The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890–1940 (1990). bernD-steFan grewe is the director of the research group Dynamics of Transnational Agency at the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Konstanz in Germany. His research interests include environmental history (Der versperrte Wald, 2004), global and international history (Project: The Global History of Gold in the Twentieth Century), and material culture (Luxury in Global Perspective: Objects and Practices, 2010). thoMas lekan is an associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and currently a residential fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. His books include Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German National Identity, 1885–1945 (2004) and, with coeditor Thomas Zeller, Germany’s Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History (2005). J. r. McneIll teaches world history, environmental history, and international history at Georgetown University. His books include Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World (2000) and Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640–1914 (2010). 0 0 ChrIstIan pFIster is an emeritus professor of economic, social, and environmental history at the University of Bern. Besides publishing several books in German, he has written articles on population, climate, disaster, and environmental history, such as “Social Vulnerability to Climate in the Little Ice Age: An Example from Central Europe in the Early 1770s” (2006) and “Climatic Extremes, Recurrent Crises, and Witch Hunts: Strategies of European Societies in Coping with Exogenous Shocks in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries” (2007). For the list of his publications and downloads, see http://www.wsu.hist. unibe.ch. alon tal is a professor at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His books include Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel (2002) and Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches That Moved the World (2006). Joel a. tarr is Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has published The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (1996) and, with Clay McShane, The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (2007). Frank uekoetter is a Dilthey Fellow with the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and deputy director of the Rachel Carson Center, also in Munich. His books include The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany (2006) and The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970 (2009). l i s t o f c o n t r i b u t o r s ...