Nature and the Iron Curtain

Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4545-1
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

This edited volume is a political and comparative history of environmentalism and environmental policy in the communist and capitalist worlds during the Cold War year. It deals with several different national and transnational contexts throughout the length and breadth of the Cold War. In the decades after 1945, as the Cold War developed, the societal, civic, and governmental contexts of the East and the West showed some differences but also some commonalities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirchhof, Astrid

Mcneill, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Über Autor(innen)

John McNeill was awarded a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Since 1985 he has  served two masters, as a faculty member of the School of Foreign Service and History Department at Georgetown. From 2003 until 2006 he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs, until his appointment as University Professor. He teaches world history, environmental history, and international history at Georgetown; and writes books, and directs Ph.D. students, mainly in environmental history.

Dr. Astrid Mignon Kirchhof is a research associate and lecturer at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at Humboldt University, Berlin and a Senior Research Fellow at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Previously she was the Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Georgetown University and the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC and Volkswagen principal investigator of the project ‘The Nature of Cold War: GDR Nature Conservation Policy during the East-West Conflict from 1945 to 1990’. From 2010 to 2014 she was the principal investigator of the DFG-research project ‘From nature conservation to environmental protection. Civic involvement and the transformation of the nature conservation movement in East and West Berlin between 1945 and 1990’ at Humboldt University. In her research Astrid focuses on the transnational and transcontinental perspective of 20th century global environmental history, protest movements, gender history, and urban studies. Within HoNESt Astrid will contribute to the historical analysis of the West German experience of nuclear energy.