Format:
1 online resource (310 pages)
ISBN:
9783110729948
Series Statement:
Veröffentlichungen Aus Dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum 242
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: "King Coal" and modern mining history -- Politics of coal -- The European energy system in an age of globalisation -- Between political continuity and new deal: The energy sector in France in the 1960s -- The French oil industry under the Corps des Mines: From family firms to national champions to private multinationals -- Coal and common market: Forecasting crisis in the early European Parliament -- From oil to coal? The International Energy Agency (IEA) and international coal policy since the end of the 1970s -- "Humanization of work": A watershed in German hard coal mining? -- Qualifying the stranger: Educational policies for migrant workers in the West-German mining industry -- Mobility and the crisis of intelligence: The mining industry and the negotiation of knowledge under "deindustrialisation" -- Mining, heritage, legacy -- Short-term rise and decades of decline: German hard coal mining after 1945 -- Losing our mines: Scotland's coal industry in context -- From the "steel heart of Czechoslovakia" to post-industrial space: Boom, crisis and the cultural heritage of the Ostrava-Karviná mining district -- Receding futures, shifting pasts: The British coal industry, generational change and the politics of temporality, ca. 1967-1987 -- The representation of coal mining in German post-war newsreels (East-West) 1948 to 1965 -- Pulser for preservation: Bernd and Hilla Becher and the role of photography in industrial heritage -- The legacy of coal mining - A view of examples in France and Belgium -- Black diamond heritage: A North American study of coal mining preservation -- How industrial heritage became green - Renaturalisation narratives in regional history culture -- "Biofacts" - Recultivating the post-mining landscape in the Anthropocene.
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Language:
English
Author information:
Bluma, Lars 1969-
Author information:
Meyer, Torsten 1964-
Author information:
Farrenkopf, Michael 1966-
