modernization, socialisation, state, central Europe, east central Europe, capidalism, ecology

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries urbanization and industrialization altered the environment in a dramatic fashion throughout Europe. Much of this change in East-Central Europe was instigated, facilitated and coordinated by the state. The economic and technological intervention by the state and its interconnectedness with capitalism and science has had tremendous ecological consequences since the eighteenth century. To cover this gap the Centre for Economic and Social History at the University of Ostrava invites bothestablished researchers and graduate students to submit their paper proposals to be presented at the online workshop.