A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
Hal Rothman’s Neon Metropolis is a colorful and absorbing account of Las Vegas’s rise from the desert landscape of the American West to the cutting edge of metropolitan growth and development.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
Garbage, wastewater, and hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future examines changes in the ways cities are managed, built, and lived in that could tip the balance towards a healthier and more peaceful urban future.