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Paris After Haussmann - Living With Infrastructure In The City Of Light, 1870-1914

by Peter S. Soppelsa

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 Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded and modernized, some Parisians were left behind: as late as 1928, 18 percent of houses still lacked direct sewerage. Haussmannization often hid infrastructures behind walls and floors, under streets, or in peripheral districts. In the forty years after 1870, a period that Peter Soppelsa calls "secondary Haussmannization," Parisians inverted them—revealed their hidden components to scrutinize their workings and costs for society, environment, and health—and in turn politicized them. Drawing on French government archives, engineers’ maps, the illustrated press, and a collection of over 100 photographic postcards, Soppelsa charts the diverse embodied, emotional, and everyday experiences of living with expanding urban infrastructures—streets, housing, tramways, subways, the water supply, sewers, and rivers—in Paris from 1870 to 1914. Parisians learned that infrastructures were not simply technical solutions for the social and environmental problems of city life but could also bring about new dangers and dependencies.
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Fordism And The City - How An Industry Shaped Urbanization In America

by Jay Cephas

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 In the early twentieth century, the Ford Motor Company built an industrial empire with massive factory complexes and associated infrastructures. Henry Ford’s 1915 plan to decentralize industrial manufacturing relied on moving key technical processes closer to sites of resource extraction while distributing elements of production. In <i>Fordism and the City</i>, Jay Cephas analyzes key infrastructures—from factories and mills to roads, rail lines, and canals—to trace the impact of automated, assembly-line production on the urban and rural landscapes of Michigan. The overwhelming scale of the Ford Motor Company’s plant in Dearborn, the idyllic setting of its small village factories throughout the Rouge River corridor, and the remoteness of the company’s iron ore mines and hardwood forests in the Upper Peninsula all played an important role. Under the rubric of "the industrial city," Fordism sought to replace conventional urbanism, reconfiguring factory production and then making its practices visible and intelligible to a consuming public through an industrial aesthetic. In doing so, Cephas shows, Fordism functioned as a normalizing force that helped to usher in the new industrial society.
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Cambodian Buddhism - History And Practice

by Ian Harris

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 Ian Harris offers English-language scholars a treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture, with a a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country from its inception to the present day.
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Motor City Green - A Century Of Landscapes And Environmentalism In Detroit

by Joseph Stanhope Cialdella

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 As Detroit continues toward a green future, Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how the cityâ€™s urban gardens of today evolved from, but are also distinct from, the urban green spaces that came before them.
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Negotiated Landscape, A - The Transformation Of San Francisco'S Waterfront Since 1950

by Jasper Rubin

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 A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium.
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Compound Remedies - Galenic Pharmacy In Colonial Mexico

by Paula De Vos

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 Compound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City's Herrera pharmacy - natural substances with known healing powers that formed the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico.
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Germany'S Urban Frontiers - Nature And History On The Edge Of The Nineteenth-Century City

by Kristin Poling

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 Examines how 19th-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped German urban peripheries.
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Coastal Metropolis - Environmental Histories Of Modern New York City

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 Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
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City Of Lake And Prairie - Chicago'S Environmental History

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 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.
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Regenerating Dixie - Electric Energy And The Modern South

by Casey Cater

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 Electrification as an Engine of Change in the Modern South
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Slick Policy - Environmental And Science Policy In The Aftermath Of The Santa Barbara Oil Spill

by Teresa Sabol Spezio

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 In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental activism movement.
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Pennsylvania Farming - A History In Landscapes

by Sally Mcmurry

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 Presents the first history of Pennsylvania agriculture in more sixty years. Sally McMurry goes beyond a strictly economic approach and examines the factors of gender, labour, and environmental history to enlighten the role of women, children, tenants, migrants, and multi-varied cultures on the landscapes and distinctive regions of the commonwealth.
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The Shale Dilemma - A Global Perspective On Fracking And Shale Development

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 The US shale boom and efforts by other countries to exploit their shale resources could reshape energy and environmental landscapes across the world. But how might those landscapes change? The Shale Dilemma brings together experts working at the forefront of shale gas issues on four continents to explain how countries reach their decisions on shale development.
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Green Republican - John Saylor And The Preservation Of America'S Wilderness

by Thomas G, Jr Smith

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 A biography of John P. Saylor, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who became a prominent conservationist in the three decades after World War II.
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River City And Valley Life - An Environmental History Of The Sacramento Region

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 Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, the contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. This environmental history provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West.
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Seattle And The Roots Of Urban Sustainability - Inventing Ecotopia

by Jeffrey Craig Sanders

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 Sanders examines the rise of environmental activism in Seattle amidst the "urban crisis" of the 1960s and its aftermath. Seattle's activists came to influence everything from industry to politics, planning, and global environmental movements.
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Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained - Rethinking City-River Relations

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 But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream;
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Mind Of Winter - Wallace Stevens, Meditation, And Literature

by William W. Bevis

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 Bevis examines the most puzzling and least studied aspect of Wallace Stevens poetry: detachment."
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City On Fire - Technology, Social Change, And The Hazards Of Progress In Mexico City, 1860-1910

by Anna Rose Alexander

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 City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center.
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Biking Through History - On The Great Allegheny Passage Trail

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 This book reveals the historic importance of the Great Allegheny Passage Trail, now a scenic biking tand hiking trail that stretches from Pittsburgh, PA to Washington, D.C. Through beautiful contemporary photos, historic illustrations and a compelling narrative, the rich history of the trail comes to life for visitors (and everyone) to enjoy. Formerly titled An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail, this is a revised and updated version.
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Weeds - An Environmental History Of Metropolitan America

by Zachary Falck

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 Presents a comprehensive history of "happenstance plants" in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, Zachary J.S. Falck examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centres from Boston to Los Angeles.
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Epidemics, Empire, And Environments - Cholera In Madras And Quebec City, 1818-1919

by Michael Zeheter

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 Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge. Its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role. In this book, Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada.
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Power On The Hudson - Storm King Mountain And The Emergence Of Modern American Environmentalism

by Robert Lifset

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 Robert D. Lifset offers an original case history of a major event in environmental history--when a small group of local residents initiated a landmark case of ecology versus energy production and challenged the construction of the Storm King pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant on the Hudson River in the 1960s.
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Energy Capitals - Local Impact, Global Influence

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 "Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred. With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more recent energy capitals, contrasts their evolutions, and explores why some capitals were able to influence global trends in energy production and distribution while others failed to control even their own destinies"--
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