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Die Doppelte Katastrophe


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English summary: At the end of the 18th century Europe suffered one of the worst subsistence crises of the Little Ice Age. The disastrous fatality of this 'double' catastrophe was a result of both climate and culture. The effects of earth and famine were felt throughout Europe and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The crisis initiated mass migration, discrimination and bouts of antisemitism but also political reform, early humanitarianism and new fields of science. It linked the revolts of the Steelboys in Ireland with the absolutist coup in Sweden and the bourgeois reform movements in Saxony. Dominik Collet draws on these crises to trace, how climate anomalies have been 'socialised' in the past and to highlight the surprising plurality of societal responses. His book calls for a socionatural approach to writing history. It narrates an entangled history of environment and society that pursues the links between short-term events and long-term, socio-ecological structures. Due to these interconnections the crisis of the 1770s reveals the deeper, underlying conflicts of the affected societies in the fields of economy, ecology and governance. They reveal the inherent vulnerability of Europe's 'grain societies' and sketch the actions of governments, subjects and 'experts'. In this complex environment catastrophes constitute both social and natural disasters. The study challenges social and climatic determinism and illustrates that more dynamic connections of climate and culture are both necessary and feasible. It calls for a fresh perspective that - instead of separating nature and culture - treats nature as history. German description: Am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts durchlebte Europa, im Zuge einer extremen Klimaanomalie der Kleinen Eiszeit eine der schwersten Hungerkrisen seiner Geschichte. Das fatale Zusammenspiel von Klima und Kultur machte sie zur 'doppelten' Katastrophe. Ihre Auswirkungen erfassten den gesamten Kontinent und kosteten hunderttausende Menschen das Leben. Die Krise beforderte neben Ausgrenzung, Auswanderung und Antisemitismus aber auch politische Reformen, Humanitarismus und neue Wissenschaften. Das Buch zeigt am Beispiel dieses Ereignisses, wie fruhere Gesellschaften Witterungsextreme bewaltigten und wie vielfaltig Klimaimpulse 'sozialisiert' werden konnten. Dominik Collet pladiert fur einen integrativen, sozionaturalen Zugang zur Geschichte. Es erzahlt eine Verflechtungsgeschichte von Mensch und Umwelt, in der kurzfristige Ereignisse und langfristige, soziookologische Strukturen eng miteinander verkoppelt sind. Daher offenbart der Blick auf die Hungersnot schlaglichtartig grundlegende okonomische und okologische Problemlagen der Gesellschaften des 18. Jahrhunderts. In diesem Umfeld erweisen sich vermeintliche Naturkatastrophen immer auch als Kulturkatastrophen. Die Studie stellt deterministische Zugange in Frage und zeigt, dass eine dynamische Perspektive auf das Zusammenwirken von Klima und Kultur ebenso notwendig wie praktikabel ist. Sie regt dazu an, die Natur nicht langer als Gegenteil, sondern als Teil der Geschichte zu begreifen.
About the Author: Dr. Dominik Collet ist Privatdozent am Historischen Seminar der Universitat Heidelberg und Nachwuchsgruppenleiter am Heidelberg Center for Environment.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783525355923
  • Publisher: vandenhoeck & ruprecht
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: German
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 979 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3525355920
  • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2018
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 466
  • Series Title: Umwelt Und Gesellschaft
  • Sub Title: Klima Und Kultur in Der Europaischen Hungerkrise 1770-1772
  • Width: 165 mm


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