TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diefendorf,Jeffry M.
AU  - Dorsey,Kurk
TI  - City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History
SN  - 9780822972778
AV  - GF13 
U1  - 304.2 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Human ecology-History
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)-History
KW  - Landscape changes-History
KW  - Economic development-Environmental aspects
KW  - Social history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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