Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the 20th Century

The increasing pace and specialization of historical inquiry caused an ever-widening gap between professional research and general surveys of world history. The titles in the Connections series are designed to bridge that gap by placing the latest research, on selected topics of global significance into an easily accessible context for students. Brief and tightly focused, each Connections title examines cross-cultural themes by employing a combination, of narrative, documents, and analysis ...