Title & Author:

City, country, empire : landscapes in environmental history / edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey.

Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2005.

Description:

viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
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.
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ISBN:

0822942577 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822942573 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822958767 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822958765 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Human ecology History.
Urban ecology (Sociology) History.
Landscape changes History.
Economic development Environmental aspects.
Social history.
Écologie humaine Histoire.
Écologie urbaine Histoire.
Paysages Modifications Histoire.
Développement économique Aspect de l'environnement.
Histoire sociale.
social history.
Human ecology.
Landscape changes.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Industriegesellschaft
Stadtökologie
Umweltveränderung
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Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Diefendorf, Jeffry M., 1945-
Dorsey, Kurkpatrick.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251464
Call No.: GF13 .C58 2005
Status: Available