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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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Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
Brian Black tells the cultural and environmental history of Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, and investigates the relations among oil production, industrialization, and local residents.
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Foundation of the Oekonomische Gesellschaft Bern
A classic proponent of the trans-European Economic Enlightenment, the Oekonomische Gesellschaft Bern, founded in 1759, strove to optimize the use of the region’s resources in order to protect the sovereignty of the state of Bern. Its significance should not be measured according to its immediate practical effects, but rather in view of how its ideas for new forms of scientifically based natural resource usage unfolded over the long term.
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Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas
Imperfect Balance offers a balance of accessible writing and scholarly approaches to understanding the Western Hemisphere’s incredibly diverse landscapes, the human forces that shaped them, and the impact of this interaction on sustained human settlement.
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Enclosure, Environment and Landscape in Southern England
This book engages debates on the timing and location of the agricultural revolution by focusing on the process of enclosure in the southern English counties of Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire.
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Political Reform, Professional Knowledge and Moral Appeals: Tscharner’s Strategy for Sustainability
As a response to perceived lumber shortages, Niklaus Emanuel Tscharner sketched a comprehensive strategy for achieving forest sustainability which included political proposals, forestry instructions and moral appeals.
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Circeo National Park: Fascist Land-Reclamation and Conservation in the Pontine Marshes
The Circeo National Park was created in 1934 as a propaganda tool to serve as a reminder of how the area looked during the Roman Empire. In fact, the area had been radically modified by Fascist land-reclamation policies and practices.
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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman.
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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.