Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
Brian Black tells the cultural and environmental history of Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, and investigates the relations among oil production, industrialization, and local residents.
Brian Black tells the cultural and environmental history of Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, and investigates the relations among oil production, industrialization, and local residents.
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.
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.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
The British Alkali Acts are a first systematic attempt to control the increasing pollution from the Alkali industry.