Umweltgeschichte gewinnt in Lehre und Forschung immer mehr an Bedeutung. Das Buch führt in Konzepte, Felder und Methoden des Faches ein. Es behandelt die großen Themen der neueren europäischen Geschichte wie Industrialisierung, Urbanisierung oder Imperialismus aus umwelthistorischer Perspektive. Geeignet für Lehrende und für Studierende vom Bachelor- bis zum Master-Niveau.

Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional… Read More Ernesto Capello (2020): Mapping Mountains. Brill: Boston, Leiden.

During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto „unknown“ territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual… Read More Ernesto Capello and Julia B. Rosenbaum (eds.) (2021): Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas. Routledge: New York.