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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.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
Through histories of extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography.
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.
Excerpt from An Environmental History of the Civil War.