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City, Country, Empire : Landscapes in Environmental History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822972778
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: City, Country, EmpireDDC classification:
  • 304.2
LOC classification:
  • GF13
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Challenges for Environmental History / Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey -- Part I: Cities -- 1. The Metabolism of the Industrial City: The Case of Pittsburgh / Joel A. Tarr -- 2. Los Angeles's Nature: Urban Environmental Politics in the Twentieth Century / Sarah S. Elkind -- 3. The Environmental Transformation of the Ruhr / Ursula von Petz -- Part II: Countryside -- 4. Of REITS and Rights: Absentee Ownership in the Periphery / Elizabeth Blackmar -- 5. Floods and Landscapes in the Inland West / Nancy Langston -- 6. The Industrial Alchemy of Hydraulic Mining: Law, Technology, and Resource-Intensive Industrialization / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Part III: Empires -- 7. West Africa's Colonial Fungus: Globalization and Science at the End of Empire, 1949-2000 / James C. McCann -- 8. When Stalin Learned to Fish: Natural Resources, Technology, and Industry under Socialism / Paul R. Josephson -- 9. Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1650-1900 / J. R. McNeill -- 10. Creation and Destruction in Landscapes of Empire / Thomas R. Dunlap -- Afterword: Environmental History, Past, Present, and Future / Alfred W. Crosby -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Challenges for Environmental History / Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey -- Part I: Cities -- 1. The Metabolism of the Industrial City: The Case of Pittsburgh / Joel A. Tarr -- 2. Los Angeles's Nature: Urban Environmental Politics in the Twentieth Century / Sarah S. Elkind -- 3. The Environmental Transformation of the Ruhr / Ursula von Petz -- Part II: Countryside -- 4. Of REITS and Rights: Absentee Ownership in the Periphery / Elizabeth Blackmar -- 5. Floods and Landscapes in the Inland West / Nancy Langston -- 6. The Industrial Alchemy of Hydraulic Mining: Law, Technology, and Resource-Intensive Industrialization / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Part III: Empires -- 7. West Africa's Colonial Fungus: Globalization and Science at the End of Empire, 1949-2000 / James C. McCann -- 8. When Stalin Learned to Fish: Natural Resources, Technology, and Industry under Socialism / Paul R. Josephson -- 9. Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1650-1900 / J. R. McNeill -- 10. Creation and Destruction in Landscapes of Empire / Thomas R. Dunlap -- Afterword: Environmental History, Past, Present, and Future / Alfred W. Crosby -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.

A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.

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