TY - BOOK AU - Diefendorf,Jeffry M. AU - Dorsey,Kurkpatrick TI - City, country, empire: landscapes in environmental history SN - 9780822972778 AV - GF13 .C589 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Pittsburgh, PA PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - Human ecology KW - History KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Landscape changes KW - Economic development KW - Environmental aspects KW - Social history KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=858438&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -