The 1831 cholera riot in St. Petersburg was an extreme result of the city’s immense water pollution problem and led to social conflict between the educated classes and the poor people.
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An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.
An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.
Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
The first major oil price crisis shocks Western industrial nations and initiates a long history of price fluctuations of this finite resource.
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today.
Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines.
US history from an environmental perspective.