Environmental & Earth Sciences
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A Monastery for the Ibex: Conservation, State, and the Conflict of the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949 [Hardback]
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822946359
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Today, there are more than 30,000 ibex living in the Alps, all of which descended ... .... Learn More -
Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City [Hardback]
Kristin Poling (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822946410
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on ... .... Learn More -
The Birds of Kentucky [Hardback]
Burt L. Monroe (Author); William Zimmerman (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813151410
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
The first book of its kind to be published for the Bluegrass State, The Birds of Kentucky is designed to provide an accurate and scientifically rigorous description of all the species of birds found in Kentucky. This comprehensive guide f... .... Learn More -
City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History [Paperback]
Kathleen A. Brosnan (Editor); William C. Barnett (Editor); Ann Durkin Keating (Editor)
£19.00ISBN: 9780822966739
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet - City of Lake and Prairie - with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake M... .... Learn More -
The Extraction State: A History of Natural Gas in America [Paperback]
Charles Blanchard (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780822966760
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. Natural gas provides the fuel that allows us to heat our homes in winter and cool them in summer with the touch of a button or turn of a dial - when the industry... .... Learn More -
A Mighty Capital Under Threat: The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000 [Hardback]
Bill Luckin (Editor); Peter Thorsheim (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946106
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by it... .... Learn More -
Gone to Ground: A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam [Hardback]
Emily Brownell (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946113
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Intersections: Histories of Environment
Gone to Ground is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massi... .... Learn More -
Environment and Urbanization in Modern Italy [Hardback]
Federico Paolini (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822945932
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the uncontrollable process of urban drift, fueled by considerable migratory flows from the countryside ... .... Learn More -
Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit [Hardback]
Joseph Stanhope Cialdella (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822945727
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michi... .... Learn More -
Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region [Hardback]
Mark Maltby (Editor); Mark Brisbane (Editor)
£65.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842172773
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the... .... Learn More
