Screen LibraryCity, country, empire：landscapes in environmental history
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University of Pittsburgh Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Publication Dates: | c2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 288 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0822942577 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822942573 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822958767 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822958765 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q988 |
| CLC: | Q988 |
| Call Number: | Q988/C581 |
| Contents: |
Donation. Includes bibliographical references and index. Challenges for environmental history / Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey -- The metabolism of the industrial city: the case of Pittsburgh / Joel A. Tarr -- Los Angeles's nature: urban environmental politics in the twentieth century / Sarah S. Elkind -- The environmental transformation of the Ruhr / Ursula von Petz -- Of REITS and rights: absentee ownership at the periphery / Elizabeth Blackmar -- Floods and landscapes in the inland west / Nancy Langston -- The industrial alchemy of hydraulic mining: law, technology, and resource-intensive industrialization / Andrew C. Isenberg -- West Africa's colonial fungus: globalization and science at the end of empire, 1949-2000 / James C. McCann -- When Stalin learned to fish: natural resources, technology, and industry under socialism / Paul R. Josephson -- Yellow Jack and geopolitics: environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1650-1900 / J. R. McNeill -- Creation and destruction in landscapes of empire / Thomas R. Dunlap -- Afterword: environmental history, past, present, and future / Alfred W. Crosby. |