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Politics, Pollution and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir
A memoir of the author’s life and his strong interests in wildlife, conservation, and major environmental organizations.
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The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
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Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance
An analysis of environmental policy in China with a focus on the regulation of water pollution.
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Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
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The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester
Stephen Mosley examines three aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Manchester’s smoke situation: its magnitude and impact on the town, the rhetoric and culture of smoke, and the (unsuccessful) campaigns to control it.
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The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970
A comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
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Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment
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.
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West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.
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The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park
Excerpt from The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park by Michael W. Childers.
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Environmental and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.