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Uwe Lübken has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, and at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His publications include a prize-winning book on the US perception of the national socialist threat to Latin America and several edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) transnational and environmental history. He has published a history of flooding of the Ohio River (2014) and coedited volumes on urban fires (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), the management of natural resources (Berghahn Books, 2014), and city–river relations (Pittsburgh University Press, 2016). Most recently, he has edited, together with his colleague Manlio Della Marca, a special issue of Reviews in International American Studies (RIAS, 2021) on “Rivers of the Americas.”
Uwe obtained his doctoral degree in Anglo-American history from the University of Cologne and his habilitation from LMU in American cultural history.
In Seeing the Woods: Climates of Migration: An Interview with Uwe Lübken
Extended List of Selected Publications (PDF, 84 kb)
CV and Book Publications (PDF, 193 kb, in German)
Selected Publications:
- “Concrete History: Flood Walls on the Ohio River.” In Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North, edited by Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Høghøj, 145–64. Cham: Palgrave McMillan, 2024.
- “Vanport, Oregon: The Long History of an Ephemeral City.” Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies, no. 19 (2022): 66–81. https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2022.i19.1161.
- “Wie natürlich sind Naturkatastrophen? Anmerkungen aus umwelthistorischer Perspektive.” In Naturkatastrophen, edited by Beate Kellner und Andreas Höfele, 361–83. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2022. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767429_016.
- “Histories of the Unprecedented: Climate Change, Environmental Transformations, and Displacement in the United States.” Open Library of Humanities Journal 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.347.
- Die Natur der Gefahr: Überschwemmungen am Ohio River im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [The Nature of Danger: Floods of the Ohio River in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century]. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2014.
- edited with Greg Bankoff and Jordan Sand. Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.