Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment / Edition 1

by Martin V. Melosi

Overview

Garbage, wastewater, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822957669
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	07/19/2001
Series:	Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
Edition description:	1
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, and Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment.

Editorial Reviews

As a collection of essays that span more than two decades, the work helps identify the range of environmental issues in areas of urban and industrial life. . . . In bringing this well-documented, insightful material together with new introductory essays, Melosi has performed a true service to the study of the urban environment.”
—Robert Gottlieb, Occidental College


"Environmental Historians and urban historians alike will find Effluent America a useful book to have on the shelf. The collection as a whole will challenge environmental historians in particular to think reatively about how to incorporate urban material culture, technical and administrative systems, and the progressive reform movement more effectively into their research and curriculum."
—H-Net Reviews

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