»Es ist [...] sehr zu begrüßen, dass dieses zuletzt immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnende Gebiet der Geschichtswissenschaften durch diesen 'Reader' nunmehr kompakt erschlossen wird.« Andreas Weigl, Wiener Geschichtsblätter, 2 (2020) Besprochen in: Literaturdatenbank ORLIS, 7 (2020) Fraunhofer IRB, 3 (2020) zoll+, 36 (2020)
Sebastian Haumann is professor for economic, social and environmental history at Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria). With a study on the history of limestone as an industrial resource, he received his habilitation at Technische Universität Darmstadt and has continued to work on the broader field of substance history.Martin Knoll (Prof. Dr. phil.), born in 1969, is a professor for European regional history at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His research focuses on environmental history, cultural history of the early modern period, the historical development of city-hinterland-relations, and the history of tourism.Detlev Mares, born in 1965, teaches modern history and history didactics at Darmstadt University of Technology. His research deals with British history, popular political culture, and the didactics of history.