City, country, empire : landscapes in environmental history /
City, country, empire : landscapes in environmental history /
edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey.
- Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2005.
- 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Challenges for environmental history / The metabolism of the industrial city: the case of Pittsburgh / Los Angeles's nature: urban environmental politics in the twentieth century / The environmental transformation of the Ruhr / Of REITS and rights: absentee ownership at the periphery / Floods and landscapes in the inland west / The industrial alchemy of hydraulic mining: law, technology, and resource-intensive industrialization / West Africa's colonial fungus: globalization and science at the end of empire, 1949-2000 / When Stalin learned to fish: natural resources, technology, and industry under socialism / Yellow Jack and geopolitics: environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1650-1900 / Creation and destruction in landscapes of empire / Afterword: environmental history, past, present, and future / Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey -- Joel A. Tarr -- Sarah S. Elkind -- Ursula von Petz -- Elizabeth Blackmar -- Nancy Langston -- Andrew C. Isenberg -- James C. McCann -- Paul R. Josephson -- J.R. McNeill -- Thomas R. Dunlap -- Alfred W. Crosby.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780822972778
Human ecology--History.
Urban ecology (Sociology)--History.
Landscape changes--History.
Economic development--Environmental aspects.
Social history.
Electronic books.
Electronic Books.
GF13 / .C589 2005
Includes bibliographies and index.
Challenges for environmental history / The metabolism of the industrial city: the case of Pittsburgh / Los Angeles's nature: urban environmental politics in the twentieth century / The environmental transformation of the Ruhr / Of REITS and rights: absentee ownership at the periphery / Floods and landscapes in the inland west / The industrial alchemy of hydraulic mining: law, technology, and resource-intensive industrialization / West Africa's colonial fungus: globalization and science at the end of empire, 1949-2000 / When Stalin learned to fish: natural resources, technology, and industry under socialism / Yellow Jack and geopolitics: environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1650-1900 / Creation and destruction in landscapes of empire / Afterword: environmental history, past, present, and future / Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey -- Joel A. Tarr -- Sarah S. Elkind -- Ursula von Petz -- Elizabeth Blackmar -- Nancy Langston -- Andrew C. Isenberg -- James C. McCann -- Paul R. Josephson -- J.R. McNeill -- Thomas R. Dunlap -- Alfred W. Crosby.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780822972778
Human ecology--History.
Urban ecology (Sociology)--History.
Landscape changes--History.
Economic development--Environmental aspects.
Social history.
Electronic books.
Electronic Books.
GF13 / .C589 2005