Künstliche Kost: Ernährung in Deutschland, 1840 bis Heute

Uwe Spiekermann

Our understanding of nutrition changed fundamentally during the mid-nineteenth century: meals and ingredients became a combination of compounds…. Profiling key actors and events, the author examines how diets, advertising, and additives have developed since the mid-nineteenth century, and how responses continue to shape everyday life.

Die doppelte Katastrophe: Klima und Kultur in der europäischen Hungerkrise 1770–1772

Dominik Collet

At the end of the eighteenth century, during the Little Ice Age, Europe experienced one of the worst hunger crises in its history in the wake of a severe climate anomaly. The fatal interaction of climate and culture made it a “double” catastrophe. Using this event as an example, Collet’s book shows how former societies coped with weather extremes and highlights the social dimensions of diverse climate impacts.

Umwelt in Roman: Ökologisches Bewusstsein und Literatur im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung

Agnes Limmer-Kneitz

Umwelt in Roman (Environment Through the Novel) provides insights into social perceptions of environmental risks and their impact during early industrialization. Agnes Limmer-Kneitz searches for the roots of modern ecological consciousness in the cultural legacy of the long nineteenth century.

Geteilte Berge: Eine Konfliktgeschichte der Naturnutzung in der Tatra

Bianca Hoenig

Around the mid-nineteenth century, the Tatra became an iconic landscape for both the Slovak and Polish national movements and maintains great cultural significance in both countries today. Hoenigs describes how local disputes over the everyday use of mountain land have repeatedly gained social relevance, with conflicts between conservationists, tourists, and alpine farmers reaching far beyond the region.

Michelle Mart and Daniel J. Philippon, eds. “Changing food cultures, changing global environments.” Special Issue, Global Environment 11, no. 1 (2018).

Food and power have long been closely tied; in politics and culture, and at local and global scales. As many people feel powerless to withstand ongoing assaults to democracy and global environments, they are turning something they can control—food—and driving a growing global movement. This special issue of Global Environment explores the environmental history of how individuals and cultures have “consumed the world” through eating and drinking. From an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective, the pieces speak to the dynamic processes behind global environmental change over time. Alongside contributions by the editors those of Matthew Booker, Graham H. Cornwell, Ernst Langthaler, Sookyeong Hong, Laura Sayre, Stefano Magagnoli, and Raj Patel.