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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Mining the Anthropocene: How coal created the supposed ‘Age of Humans’ -- Appendix -- List of figures -- List of authors
Boom – Crisis – Heritage, diese drei Begriffe skizzieren die Geschichte des globalen Kohlenbergbaus nach 1945 treffend. Dieser gehen die im Band versammelten Aufsätze mit unterschiedlichen Schwerpunktsetzungen und Fragestellungen nach. Dieser breite Zugang spiegelt sich auch im Themenspektrum wider. In einem ersten Abschnitt finden sich politik-, sozial- und wirtschaftshistorische Beiträge. In ihnen werden das Europäische Energiesystem in der globalisierten Welt des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ebenso angesprochen wie spezifische Sozialpolitiken in Bergbaurevieren. Der zweite Abschnitt stellt dann die Medialisierung des Bergbaus und dessen Hinterlassenschaften in den Fokus, wobei auch der Umweltgeschichte des Bergbaus Beachtung geschenkt wird. Der Sammelband, der auf eine gleichnamige Konferenz am Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum zurückgeht, bietet somit einen facettenhaften Einblick in das Forschungsfeld der modernen Bergbaugeschichte
Boom – Crisis – Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this history with different emphases and questions. The range of topics also reflects this broad approach. The first section contains contributions on political, social and economic history. They address the European energy system in the globalised world of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as specific social policies in mining regions. The second section then focuses on the medialisation of mining and its legacies, also paying attention to the environmental history of mining. The anthology, which goes back to a conference of the same name at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, thus offers a multi-faceted insight into the research field of modern mining history