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City, Country, Empire - Landscapes In Environmental History (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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City, Country, Empire - Landscapes In Environmental History (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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In the urgently expanding field of environmental history, two
trends are emerging. Research has internationalized, crossing
political and historical borders. And urban spaces are increasingly
seen as part of, not apart from, the global environment. In this
book, Jeffry Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey have gathered much of the
important work pushing the field in new directions. Eleven essays
by prominent and regionally diverse scholars address how human and
natural forces collaborate in the creation of cities, the
countryside, and empires.
The Cities section features essays that examine pollution and its
aftermath in Pittsburgh, the Ruhr Valley (Germany), and Los
Angeles. These urban areas are far apart on the globe but closely
linked in their histories of how human decision making has affected
the environment.
Changing rural and suburban spaces are the focus of Countryside.
Elizabeth Blackmar "follows the money" in order to understand why
the financing of suburban mall developments makes local resistance
difficult. Studies of the fractious history of the creation of a
wildlife refuge in Oregon and the ongoing impact of hydraulic
mining in the early California goldmining era emphasize the misuse
of technology in rural spaces.
Such misuse is a central idea of Empires. In "When Stalin Learned
to Fish," Paul R. Josephson tells the story of Soviet fishing
technology designed to "harness fish to the engine of socialism."
Other essays explore the failures of Western agricultural
technology in Africa and the relationship between such technology
and disease in European attempts to conquer the Caribbean. In a
stirring, wide-ranging consideration of the neo-European colonies
(the UnitedStates, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand), Thomas R.
Dunlap observes the ongoing, unsettled interaction of lands and
dreams. An afterword by Alfred W. Crosby, an eminent scholar of
environmental history, closes the book with a broad and insightful
synthesis of the history and future of this critical field.
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