The Age of Coal.A European History, 1750 until the present

当2018年德国停止开采煤炭时，一个时代将结束，其在过去250年中对欧洲历史的重要性怎么说都不为过。在德国和整个欧洲，这种能源决定性地塑造了政治、经济、社会和文化领域;它在日常生活和高雅文化中留下了深刻的印记，并对自然和环境造成了大规模的干预，其中二氧化碳的增加是目前最紧迫的。因此，煤炭的重要性远远超出了提供一种方便的能源-正如该项目所述。这本书将显示。一个令人印象深刻的数量出版物的各个方面的煤炭开采为不同的欧洲国家已经存在。然而，一般调查是罕见的，尽管多卷选集涵盖英国和德国这将是在未来一两年内完成。其他欧洲国家没有这样的调查，欧洲煤炭史尤其如此。这种情况令人遗憾，因为煤炭时代只能在更广泛的欧洲背景下理解。该项目的目的是利用现有文献编写这样一本专著。在这样做的时候，这本专著将试图提供更多的总结-虽然这本身是一个相当大的挑战。该项目将超越既定的研究领域，纳入最近关于性别、重要性和采煤对环境的影响的出版物。这些出版物提供了新的见解，但到目前为止，它们的数量相当少，而且只覆盖了一些地区。国家因此，该项目将把这些调查结果联系起来，并把它们放在一个更广泛的时间，地域和比较方面。跨国视角。将特别强调关于“大分流”的辩论，这为将欧洲的发展置于全球背景下提供了机会。最后，我们是否可以sepak的“碳民主”的论文也将被讨论。除了现有的文献，该项目还将基于申请人进行的广泛研究。我的学术生涯始于博士学位。研究鲁尔区的矿工。在接下来的几年里，我研究了“煤炭时代”的不同领域和方面，我认为我具备成功完成这个雄心勃勃的项目所需的资格。然而，这将需要从DFG的补助金，以解除我的教学义务，为两个学期。12个月，以便出版物可以出现在2018年-当煤炭开采结束在德国。

When in 2018 the mining of coal stops in Germany an epoch will come to an end whose importance for the history of Europe over the last 250 years can not be overstated. In Germany and all over Europe this souce of energy decisively shaped the areas of politics, economics, society and culture; it left deep marks in everyday life as as well as in high culture and brought about massive interventions in nature and the environment of which the increase in CO2 currently is the most pressing. The importance of coal, therefore, goes far beyond providing a convenient source a energy - as the project resp. the book will show.An impressive number of publications on various aspects of coal mining for the different European countries already exists. However, general surveys are rare, inspite of the multi-volume anthologies covering Great Britain and Germany which will be completed within the next year or two. There are no such surveys for other European countries, and this holds especially true for a European history of coal. This situation is regrettable since the age of coal can only be understood in a wider European context. It is the aim of the project to write such a monograph, drawing upon the literature that is already available. In doing so, this monograph will try to offer more than a summary - although this in itself is quite a challenge. The project will go beyond the established fields of research and incorporate recent publications dealing with gender, materiality and environmental consequences of coal mining. These publications offer new insights, but so far their number is fairly small and they cover only some regions resp. countries. As a consequence, the project will link these findings and put them in a wider temporal, territorial und comparative resp. transnational perspective. Special emphasis will be given to the debate about the 'Great Divergence' which offers the opportunity to place developments in Europe into a global context. Finally, the thesis of whether we can sepak of a 'Carbon Democracy' will also be discussed.In addition to existing literature the project will also be based on the wide ranging research undertaken by the applicant. I started my academic career with a Ph.D. which looked at miners in the Ruhr. Over the following years, I researched different areas and aspects of the 'Age of Coal' and I would like to think that I possess the necessary qualifications to successfully complete the undoubtedly ambitious project. This would however, require a grant from the DFG to be relieved from my teaching obligations for two terms resp. 12 months so that the publication can appear in 2018 - when coal mining ends in Germany.