Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, massive floods regularly threatened cities and settlements along the Danube River. The introduction of wide-reaching telegraph networks enabled Habsburg authorities in Vienna to protect the most important city of the empire.
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
This film chronicles the arrival of around four hundred Chinese workers in Dortmund’s postindustrial landscape in 2003. Their task: to work alongside the remaining 30-strong German workforce, dismantling what was formerly Europe’s most modern coking plant.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.