The representation of coal mining in German post-war newsreels (East-West) 1948 to 1965

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: “King Coal” and modern mining history 1
5. Politics of coal
6. The European energy system in an age of globalisation 25
7. Between political continuity and new deal: The energy sector in France in the 1960s 43
8. The French oil industry under the Corps des Mines: From family firms to national champions to private multinationals 53
9. Coal and common market: Forecasting crisis in the early European Parliament 71
10. From oil to coal? The International Energy Agency (IEA) and international coal policy since the end of the 1970s 81
11. “Humanization of work”: A watershed in German hard coal mining? 93
12. Qualifying the stranger: Educational policies for migrant workers in the West-German mining industry 107
13. Mobility and the crisis of intelligence: The mining industry and the negotiation of knowledge under “deindustrialisation” 119
14. Mining, heritage, legacy
15. Short-term rise and decades of decline: German hard coal mining after 1945 131
16. Losing our mines: Scotland’s coal industry in context 147
17. From the “steel heart of Czechoslovakia” to post-industrial space: Boom, crisis and the cultural heritage of the Ostrava-Karviná mining district 161
18. Receding futures, shifting pasts: The British coal industry, generational change and the politics of temporality, ca. 1967–1987 179
19. The representation of coal mining in German post-war newsreels (East-West) 1948 to 1965 193
20. Pulser for preservation: Bernd and Hilla Becher and the role of photography in industrial heritage 211
21. The legacy of coal mining – A view of examples in France and Belgium 227
22. Black diamond heritage: A North American study of coal mining preservation 243
23. How industrial heritage became green – Renaturalisation narratives in regional history culture 257
24. “Biofacts” – Recultivating the post-mining landscape in the Anthropocene 267
25. Mining the Anthropocene: How coal created the supposed ‘Age of Humans’ 283
26. Appendix
27. List of figures 295
28. List of authors 297