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Alon Confino ALON CONFINO is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. His publications include The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany and National Memory, 1871-1918 (1997), ’Regimes of Consumer Culture’, co-edited with Rudy Koshar, a special issue of German History (2001), The Work of Memory: New Directions in German Culture and Society, co-edited with Peter Fritzsche (forthcoming, 2002), and ‘The Local Life of Nationhood: the Cultural, the Historical, and Problems of Method’, co-edited with Ajay Skaria, a special issue of National Identities (forthcoming, 2002). He is currently working on a study entitled Pleasures in Germany: A Study of Traveling in Modern Culture, 1933-1989. 28
HUMANS AND NATURE RECENT TRENDS IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY by Thomas Rohkrämer HANSJÖRG KÜSTER, Geschichte der Landschaft in Mitteleuropa: Von der Eiszeit bis zur Gegenwart (Munich: Beck, 1996), 424 pp. ISBN 3 406 39525 2. DM 78.00 ROLF PETER SIEFERLE, Rückblick auf die Natur: Eine Geschichte des Menschen und seiner Umwelt (Munich: Luchterhand, 1997), 233 pp. ISBN 3 630 87993 4. DM 38.00 FRANZ-JOSEF BRÜGGEMEIER, Tschernobyl, 26. April 1986: Die ökologische Herausforderung, 20 Tage im 20. Jahrhundert (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1998), 311 pp. ISBN 3 423 30617 3. DM 19.90 JOACHIM RADKAU, Natur und Macht: eine Weltgeschichte der Umwelt (Munich: Beck, 2000), 438 pp. ISBN 3 406 46044 5. DM 58.00 KLAUS MICHAEL MEYER-ABICH, Praktische Naturphilosophie: Erinnerungen an einen vergessenen Traum (Munich: Beck, 1997), 520 pp. ISBN 3 406 41990 9. DM 78.00 GERNOT BÖHME and HARTMUT BÖHME, Feuer, Wasser, Erde, Luft: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elemente (Munich: Beck, 1996), 344 pp. ISBN 3 406 41292 0. DM 78.00 Following the rise of public concern in the 1970s about the dangers of pollution and industrially produced risks, especially connected with the use of nuclear power, there has been a growing interest in the history of human relationships with nature. While environmental history never gained the same prominence as, for example, women’s history, it has certainly become an accepted part of the discipline. After an initial emphasis on fairly general texts about former attitudes towards nature, the majority of studies has become increasingly empirical and specialized, often dealing less with ideas than with the concrete interactions between humans and their environment. This trend has not only led to an enormous increase in our historical knowledge, it has also produced a different understanding of environmentalism: the search for a better past, which was supposed to 29
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