[Sci-tech-public] FRIDAY: Modern Times, Rural Places Seminar

[Margo Collett]

Modern Times, Rural Places:
Seminar Series at MIT



"The Building of European Forests:  In Search of Turning Points in Forest 
History"


Bernd-Stefan Grewe

Assistant Professor of History and Sociology, Director of the Transnational 
History Research Group, University of Constance, Germany



Most people in western societies think that forests are nature and 
wilderness. But there is no primeval forest left in Central Europe. Even 
those woodlands protected as national parks or reserves have been shaped by 
human use. For centuries, they had a key function for the economic and 
social development of societies. The character of European forests has 
changed greatly since 1500. But how to define turning points in forest 
history? I will suggest give a broad outline of the political, economic, 
social, cultural and ecologic development of European forests since 1500.



Friday, October 21, 2005
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095

Sponsored by MITs History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, 
and Society
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact Margo 
Collett at <mailto:mcollet at mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu

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