Martin Melosi – författare
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7 produkter
Effluent America
Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment
Häftad, 2001
771 kr
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Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
Garbage In The Cities
Refuse Reform and the Environment
Häftad, 2004
771 kr
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As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, Garbage in the Cities, …
Energy Metropolis
An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast
Av Martin Melosi, Joseph Pratt
Häftad, 2007
768 kr
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Houston's meteoric rise from a bayou trading post to the world's leading oil supplier owes much to its geography, geology, and climate: the large natural port of Galveston Bay, the lush subtropical vegetation, the abundance of natural resources. But the attributes that have made it attractive for …
Sanitary City
Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present
Häftad, 2008
771 kr
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Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are the byproduct of many decades of development …
Precious Commodity
Providing Water for America's Cities
Häftad, 2011
771 kr
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As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi …
Energy Capitals
Local Impact, Global Influence
Av Joseph Pratt, Martin Melosi m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
688 kr
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Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has …
Shadow of Pearl Harbor
Political Controversy Over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946
Häftad, 2000
227 kr
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