AMERICAN HISTORY

The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000 Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim Series: History of the Urban Environment

Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equalled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mideighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. This book investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom.

A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam By Emily Brownell Series: Intersections

The story of Dar es Salaam's environment and infrastructure.

An investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the centre of this shift. It is built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports.

An Ecobiography By Adam Izdebski

Series: Russian and East European Studies Demonstrates a valuable environmental perspective to Poland's history. Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. It has functioned as a cultural centre, an industrial centre, and a centre of learning. Behind all of this lies the city's environment: its fauna and plant life, the Vistula River, the surrounding countryside rich with resources, and manmade change that has allowed the city to flourish. In Krakow: An Ecobiography, the contributors use the city as a lens to focus these social and natural intricacies to shed new light on one of Europe's urban treasures.

A History of Natural Gas in the United States By Charles Blanchard Explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s and fell apart in the 1970s.

The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. Beginning in the 1880s, this book explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s, even before the Great Depression, and how it fell apart in the 1970s. From there, the book dissects the policies that affect us today, and explores where we might be headed in the near future.

Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City By Kristin Poling Series: History of the Urban Environment Case studies examining the history of frontier landscapes in Germany.

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany’s many growing cities. This is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had long defined central European cities disappeared.

A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit By Joseph Stanhope Cialdella Series: History of the Urban Environment The history of Detroit through an environmental lens.

This is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenthto early twenty-first century, focusing primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. The book looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past.

By Federico Paolini Series: History of the Urban Environment The first English-language examination of the impact of Italian postwar reconstruction on the environment.

From the second half of the 1940s, various aspects of post-war reconstruction in Italy were notable driving forces of environmental change. This book presents a series of essays ranging from the use of natural resources, to environmental problems caused by means of transport, to issues concerning environmental politics and the dynamics of the environment movement. It concludes with a forecast about the environmental problems that will emerge in the public debate of the twenty-first century.

Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed By Amita Sinha

Makes the case for rethinking conventional approaches to conservation. Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. This book subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. The book centres around imagining, enacting, and reclaiming landscapes as subjects and settings of living cultural heritage. Drawing on case studies from different regions of India, Sinha offers new interpretations of links between land and culture using different ways of seeing—transcendental, romantic, and utilitarian.

Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise Edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivian Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie Asks us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life.

Series: History of the Urban Environment Not a day goes by that humans aren’t exposed to toxins in our environment—be it at home, in the car, or workplace. But what about those toxic places and items that aren’t marked? Why are we warned about some toxic spaces’ substances and not others? The essays in Inevitably Toxic consider the exposure of bodies in the United States, Canada and Japan to radiation, industrial waste, and pesticides.

Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms By Jeffrey Bilbro Series: Culture of the Land

Lessons on how to live mindfully and practice the virtues of renewal.

For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence—a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. This book combines textual analysis and cultural criticism to explain how Berry's literary forms encourage readers to practice virtues of renewal.

Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining By Joseph D. Witt Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies Examines how religious and environmental ethics foster resistance to mountaintop removal coal mining.

In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has forced local citizens to redefine their identities, their connections to global economic forces, their pasts, and their futures. This book draws on extensive interviews with activists, teachers, preachers, and community leaders to examine how religion has become a defining element of resistance against the practice.

A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal By Andrew R. H. Thompson Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies A ground-breaking and nuanced study of religion and environmental consciousness in Appalachia.

This book proposes a Christian ethical analysis of a controversial mining practice in Appalachia that has often led to fierce and even violent confrontations. It provides a thorough introduction to the issues surrounding surface mining, including the environmental consequences and the resultant religious debates, and highlights the discussions being carried out in the media and by scholarly works.