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Metropolitan Natures
Environmental Histories of Montreal
Av Stephane Castonguay, Michele Dagenais
Inbunden, 2011
880 kr
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One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve …
City Natural
Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Av Shen Hou
Inbunden, 2013
809 kr
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The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888-1897). Yet, in that brief span, it brought to light many of the issues that would influence the future of American environmentalism. In The City Natural, Shen Hou presents the first "biography" of this important but largely …
London
Water and the Making of the Modern City
Av John Broich
Inbunden, 2013
809 kr
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As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the …
Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Rethinking City-River Relations
Av Martin Knoll, Uwe Lubken m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
852 kr
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Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have …
Unnatural Resources
Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo
Av Michael Camp
Inbunden, 2019
646 kr
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Unnatural Resources explores the intersection of energy production and environmental regulation in Appalachia after the oil embargo of 1973. The years from 1969 to 1973 saw the passage of a number of laws meant to protect the environment from human destruction, and they initially enjoyed broad …
Motor City Green
A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit
Inbunden, 2020
576 kr
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Winner, 2021 CCL J. B. Jackson Book Prize | Winner, 2020 Jon Gjerde Prize from the Midwestern History AssociationMotor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century that focuses on the creation and use of parks, gardens, …
Environment and Urbanization in Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2020
714 kr
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From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the uncontrollable process of urban drift, fueled by considerable migratory flows from the countryside and southern regions toward the cities where …
Mighty Capital under Threat
The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000
Av Bill Luckin, Peter Thorsheim
Inbunden, 2020
738 kr
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Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World …
Krakow
An Ecobiography
Av Adam Izdebski, Adam Izdebski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
595 kr
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Like most cities, Poland’s Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Krakow served as Poland’s capital for half a millennium. It has functioned as a cultural center, an industrial center, a center of learning, and home for millions of people. Behind all of this …
Urban Infrastructure
Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World
Av Joseph Heathcott, Jonathan Soffer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
880 kr
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Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban infrastructure. It draws on recent work across history, anthropology, science and technology studies, geography, …
Germany’s Urban Frontiers
Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City
Inbunden, 2020
806 kr
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In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany’s many growing cities. …
Coastal Metropolis
Environmental Histories of Modern New York City
Av Carl A. Zimring, Steven H. Corey
Inbunden, 2021
716 kr
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Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and …
Lung Block
Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York
Inbunden, 2024
809 kr
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Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much as they do today. The Lower East Side provided an urban environment where infectious disease and other public health concerns flourished. One city block in particular, …
Grounding Berlin
Ecologies of a Technopolis, 1871 to the Present
Av Timothy Moss
Inbunden, 2025
880 kr
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Grounding Berlin explores the city’s pioneering contributions to urban technology and urban ecology in Europe and around the world over the past 150 years. Following the 1871 unification of Germany, Berlin experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization. Providing the necessary energy, water, …
Sanitizing Moscow
Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia
Av Anna Mazanik
Inbunden, 2025
1736 kr
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2026 Winner, Lynn Hollen Lees Book Prize for Best Book in European Urban History, Urban History AssociationSanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russia’s urban modernization …
Paris After Haussmann
Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914
Inbunden, 2026
1736 kr
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Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussmannization,” helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded and modernized, some Parisians were left behind: …
Renewal, Regression, and Revival
Currents of Change in the Pittsburgh Environment
Av Joel Tarr
Inbunden, 2027
1736 kr
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Sitting at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers where they join to flow into the Ohio, the city of Pittsburgh has been shaped by its material environment—the rocky, grimy, watery base on which it stands. It has also been shaped by industrial activity, as the city has cycled …
Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs
Centuries of Change
Häftad, 2001
709 kr
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Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley—especially in New Orleans, the region\u2019s largest metropolis—has produced profound and dramatic environmental change. From prehistoric midden building to late-twentieth century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs …
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, …
Land of Sunshine
An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles
Av William Deverell, Greg Hise
Häftad, 2013
771 kr
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Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences …
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 …
Rivers in History
Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America
Av Christof Mauch, Thomas Zeller
Häftad, 2008
709 kr
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Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, …
Age of Smoke
Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970
Häftad, 2009
749 kr
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In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr Valley in Germany and western Pennsylvania in the United States, witnessed exponential growth-yet also suffered the greatest damage from coal …
Desert Cities
The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson
Häftad, 2006
709 kr
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Phoenix is known as the "Valley of the Sun," while Tucson is referred to as "The Old Pueblo." These nicknames epitomize the difference in the public's perception of each city. Phoenix continues to sprawl as one of America's largest and fastest-growing cities. Tucson has witnessed a slower rate of …
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 …
Urban Rivers
Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America
Av Stephane Castonguay, Matthew Evenden
Häftad, 2012
709 kr
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in floodplains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from …
Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability
Inventing Ecotopia
Häftad, 2012
709 kr
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Seattle, often called the \u201cEmerald City,\u201d did not achieve its green, clean, and sustainable environment easily. This thriving ecotopia is the byproduct of continuing efforts by residents, businesses, and civic leaders alike. In Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability, Jeffrey Craig …
Between Ruin and Restoration
An Environmental History of Israel
Av Daniel Orenstein, Alon Tal m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
834 kr
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The environmental history of Israel is as intriguing and complex as the nation itself. Situated on a mere 8,630 square miles, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf, varying from desert to forest, Israel’s natural environment presents innumerable challenges to its growing population. …
