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The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
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A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
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City Sanitation Regulations in the Coventry Mayor’s Proclamation of 1421
On 25 January 1421, the newly elected mayor of Coventry, England issued a proclamation that gives us insights into medieval urban sanitation concerns and their regulation in the later medieval period.
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Bailes, Kendall E., ed., Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective
This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.
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Review of An Environmental History of Latin America by Shawn William Miller
A glowing review of a synthesis of some of the key themes in the study of environmental history as it relates to Latin America.
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Graphic novel: Asbestos, PQ
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
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Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival
Comeback Cities provides a readable presentation of certain key aspects of the field of urban studies, such as the various waves of troubles that hit many American cities in the twentieth century and the broken windows theory.
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Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
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.
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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
US history from an environmental perspective.
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Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders—Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places.