Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
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.
Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Coal is a captivating narrative about an ordinary substance with an extraordinary impact on human civilization.
Peter Thorsheim, Heike Weber, Tim Cooper, and Carl A. Zimring discuss Finn Arne Jørgensen’s book on the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system.
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.
This book presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers.
Denis Wood takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways.