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082	0		_a304.2
100	1		_aDiefendorf, Jeffry M.
245	1	0	_aCity, Country, Empire : _bLandscapes in Environmental History.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aPIttsburgh : _bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, _c2005.
264		4	_c©2005.
300			_a1 online resource (297 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
520			_aA collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aHuman ecology-History.
650		0	_aUrban ecology (Sociology)-History.
650		0	_aLandscape changes-History.
650		0	_aEconomic development-Environmental aspects.
650		0	_aSocial history.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aDorsey, Kurk.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aDiefendorf, Jeffry M. _tCity, Country, Empire _dPIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,c2005 _z9780822958765
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2038819 _zClick to View
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