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1 online resource (viii, 288 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- History.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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Landscape changes -- History.
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Landscape changes. |
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects. |
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Social history.
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Social history. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Diefendorf, Jeffry M., 1945-
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Dorsey, Kurkpatrick.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: City, country, empire : landscapes in environmental history. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2005] viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm 9780822958765 (DLC)10950179 |
| ISBN |
9780822972778 electronic book |
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0822972778 electronic book |
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0822942577 |
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9780822942573 |
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0822958767 |
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9780822958765 |
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