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ENVIRONMENTAL & EARTH SCIENCE
Chicago's Environmental History Edited by William C. Barnett, Ann Durkin Keating and Kathleen Brosnan Series: History of the Urban Environment A compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history of Chicago.
Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet - City of Lake and Prairie - with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Drawing on its contributors’ interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of colour, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946311 • Hardback • 36 b/w and colour illus. 229 x 152mm • 360 pages • August 2020 • £38.00
Coastal Metropolis
Environmental Histories of Modern New York City Edited by Carl A. Zimring and Steven H. Corey Series: History of the Urban Environment New insight into how New York transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, this book offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946526 • Hardback 32 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 264 pages • August 2020 • £35.00
A Monastery for the Ibex
Conservation, State, and the Conflict of the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949 By Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
A multifaceted narrative about Italy's oldest National Park. Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg merges the history of conservation with the area’s social history and Italy’s larger political history to produce a multifaceted narrative about the park as an institution, the conflicts it triggered, and practices adopted to manage the ibex despite hurdles placed by the fascist regime.
