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Graphic novel: Asbestos, PQ
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
US history from an environmental perspective.
A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
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.