Christof Mauch (born 9 February 1960 in

Sindelfingen Sindelfingen ( Swabian: ''Sendlfenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg in south Germany. It lies near Stuttgart at the headwaters of the Schwippe (a tributary of the river Würm), and is home to a Mercedes-Benz assembly plant. The current mayor ...

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) is a German historian, presently director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in

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, and since 2007 professor of American Cultural History and

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. From 1999 to 2007 Mauch was the director of the

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in Washington D.C.. Mauch received his D.Phil. in Modern German literature from the

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in 1990, and his D.Phil. in

modern history The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the Middle Ages, often from around the year 1500, ...

in 1998 from the

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. He has published and edited many books in the fields of U.S. and

German history The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as ''Germania'', thus distinguishing it from Gaul. The victory of the Cherusci, Germanic tribes ...

and

environmental history Environmental history is the study of Human impact on the environment, human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa. Environmental history first emerged ...

. From 2009 to 2011 Mauch was chair of the board of directors of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) and from 2011 to 2013 president of the European Society for Environmental History. In May 2013 he was appointed honorary professor at

Renmin University The Renmin University of China (RUC) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and ...

, Beijing, China.In the same year he was awarded the Carl-von-Carlowitz Prize of Germany's Council for Sustainable Development, and in 2017 he received the Award for a Distinguished Career in Public Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History.

Recent publications

*''Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Amerikanische Geschichte'' he 101 most important questions: American History Munich: C.H.Beck 2008, 2nd ed. 2016 *''Geschichte der USA'' istory of the U.S. Tübingen/ Basel: UTB Francke, 6th edition 2008 (with Jürgen Heideking) *''Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service''. Translated by Jeremiah M. Riemer, New York:

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2003 (Paperback 2005) *''Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History'', Lanham, MD:

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2009 (Ed. with Christian Pfister) *''Beyond the Windshield: Landscapes and Roads in Europe and North America'' , Athens, OH:

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Press 2008 (Ed. with Thomas Zeller) *''Rivers in History'', Pittsburgh:

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2008 (Ed. with Thomas Zeller) *''Shades of Green: Global Environmentalism in Historical Perspective'',

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2006 (Ed. with

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and Doug Weiner) *''Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America'', New York:

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in collaboration with Historical Society of Washington D.C. 2005 (Ed. with Alan Lessoff) inner of the 2006 Victorian Society of America Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award">Henry-Russell_Hitchcock.html" ;"title="inner of the 2006 Victorian Society of America Henry-Russell Hitchcock">inner of the 2006 Victorian Society of America Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award*''Berlin – Washington. Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities. 1800-2000'', Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press 2005 (Ed. with Andreas Daum) *''Nature in German History'', New York/ Oxford: Berghahn Books 2004, (Ed.) *''German-Jewish Identities in America. From the Civil War to the Present'', Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press/ Publications of the

Max Kade Institute Dr. h.c. Max Kade (13 October 1882, Steinbach near Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg, Germany – 15 July 1967, Davos, Switzerland) was an emigrant from Germany to New York City who became successful in the pharmaceutical industry. Kade was committed ...

2003 (Ed.. with Joseph Salmons)

References

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