City, country, empire
Subtitle: landscapes in environmental history
By: edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey.
Contributors: Diefendorf, Jeffry M., 1945-; Dorsey, Kurkpatrick.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Human ecology -- History; Urban ecology -- History; Landscape changes -- History; Economic development -- Environmental aspects; Social history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Challenges for environmental history / Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey; title: The metabolism of the industrial city: the case of Pittsburgh / Joel A. Tarr; title: Los Angeles's nature: urban environmental politics in the twentieth century / Sarah S. Elkind; title: The environmental transformation of the Ruhr / Ursula von Petz; title: Of REITS and rights: absentee ownership at the periphery / Elizabeth Blackmar; title: Floods and landscapes in the inland west / Nancy Langston; title: The industrial alchemy of hydraulic mining: law, technology, and resource-intensive industrialization / Andrew C. Isenberg; title: West Africa's colonial fungus: globalization and science at the end of empire, 1949-2000 / James C. McCann; title: When Stalin learned to fish: natural resources, technology, and industry under socialism / Paul R. Josephson; title: Yellow Jack and geopolitics: environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1650-1900 / J. R. McNeill; title: Creation and destruction in landscapes of empire / Thomas R. Dunlap; title: Afterword: environmental history, past, present, and future / Alfred W. Crosby.