Course: Introduction to Environmental History

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Course title Introduction to Environmental History
Course code KHV/UEDB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Julius Marek, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction: what is environmental history? 2. Precursors of environmentalism and environmental history I: ancient tradition 3. Precursors of environmentalism and environmental history II .: modern tradition 4. Precursors of environmentalism and environmental history III .: 19th century 5. Precursors of environmentalism and environmental history IV: turn of the 19th and 20th centuries 6. Beginnings of environmental historiography (until the 1970s / 1980s): Annales School 7. Roots of modern environmental approach to history and establishment of environmental history in the USA 8. Personalities, approaches and themes of environmental history (since the 1970s / 1980s) I. 9. Personalities, approaches and themes of environmental history (since the 1970s / 1980s) II. 10. Theories and methods of environmental history and examples of their application I. 11. Theories and methods of environmental history and examples of their application II. 12. Current topics and trends of environmental history I. 13. Current topics and trends of environmental history II.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 52 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe the development of world history at secondary school level
Skills
to use electronic information resources
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to describe the history of environmental thinking from antiquity to the present
to characterize environmental history as a historiographical approach
Skills
to reflect the effects of the natural environment on history
to analyze the influence and importance of environmental factors on history in the long and short term
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Skills
Discussion
Competences
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Written exam
Skills
Written exam
Competences
Written exam
Recommended literature
  • Baker, Alan Reginald Harold. Geography and history : bridging the divide. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-28885-9.
  • Behringer, Wolfgang. Kulturní dějiny klimatu : od doby ledové po globální oteplování. Vyd. 1. Praha ; Paseka, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7432-022-4.
  • Beneš, Jaromír. Počátky zemědělství ve Starém světě. České Budějovice, Praha: Epistémé, Academia, 2017.
  • Burke, Peter. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. : škola Annales (1929-1989). Vyd. 1. Praha : Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2004. ISBN 80-7106-719-9.
  • Diamond, Jared M. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed. New York : Viking, 2005. ISBN 0-670-03337-5.
  • Diamond, Jared M. Osudy lidských společností : střelné zbraně, choroboplodné zárodky a ocel v historii. 1. vyd. Praha : Columbus, 2000. ISBN 80-7249-047-8.
  • Fagan, Brian. Malá doba ledová : Jak klima formovalo dějiny v letech 1300-1850. Praha: Academia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-200-1457-3.
  • GLACKEN, Clarence James. Traces on the Rhodian Shore. Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1976.
  • Iggers, Georg G. Dějepisectví ve 20. století : od vědecké objektivity k postmoderní výzvě. Praha : Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2002. ISBN 80-7106-504-8.
  • McNeill, John Robert. Something new under the sun : an environmental history of the twentieth-century world. New York : Norton, 2000. ISBN 0-393-04917-5.
  • Parker, G. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven, 2013.
  • Penna, Anthony N. The human footprint a global environmental history. Second edition. 2015. ISBN 978-1-118-91260-7.
  • Ponting, Clive. Zelené dějiny světa : životní prostředí a kolaps velkých civilizací. První české vydání. 2018. ISBN 978-80-246-2496-9.
  • Schama, Simon. Krajina a paměť. Vyd. 1. Praha : Argo, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7203-803-9.
  • Simmons, I. G. Global Environmental History 10,000 BC to AD 2000.. 2008.
  • Toynbee, Arnold. Lidstvo a matka Země : vyprávění o dějinách světa. Vyd. 1. Praha : Práh, 2001. ISBN 80-7252-053-9.
  • William F. Ruddiman. Pluhy, nemoci a ropa. Praha: Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-80-200-1860-1.


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