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，对于过去250年的欧洲历史来说，其重要性怎么强调都不为过。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；它在日常生活和高级文化中留下了深刻的印记，并带来了对自然和环境的大规模干预，其中二氧化碳的增加是目前最紧迫的。因此，煤炭的重要性远远不止于提供一种方便的能源--正如该项目所述。这本书将展示。关于不同欧洲国家煤矿开采的各个方面的出版物数量已经令人印象深刻。然而，尽管将在未来一两年内完成的涵盖英国和德国的多卷选集，但一般性调查很少见。其他欧洲国家没有这样的调查，对于欧洲的煤炭历史来说尤其如此。这种情况令人遗憾，因为只有在更广泛的欧洲背景下才能理解煤炭时代。该项目的目标是利用已有的文献撰写这样一本专著。在这样做的过程中，这本专著将试图提供比总结更多的内容-尽管这本身就是一个相当大的挑战。该项目将超越现有的研究领域，纳入关于煤矿开采的性别、实质性和环境后果的最新出版物。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，而且只涵盖了一些地区。国家。因此，该项目将把这些调查结果联系起来，并将其置于更广泛的时间、地域和比较范围内。跨国视角。将特别强调关于“大分歧”的辩论，这为把欧洲的发展放在全球范围内提供了机会。最后，我们还将讨论我们是否可以建立“碳民主”的论点。除了现有的文献外，该项目还将基于申请者进行的广泛研究。我的学术生涯始于研究鲁尔区矿工的博士学位。在接下来的几年里，我研究了“煤炭时代”的不同领域和方面，我认为我拥有成功完成这个无疑雄心勃勃的项目所需的资格。然而，这将需要DFG的拨款，以免除我两个学期的教学义务。12个月，这样这本书就可以在2018年出版--德国的煤矿开采将于2018年结束。

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.