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  | | The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Ser. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture : Volume 8: Environment by Charles Reagan Wilson, Martin Melosi Published 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1661-2, ISBN: 1-4696-1661-0 |
 | | Echoes from the Poisoned Well Global Memories of Environmental Injustice by Heather Goodall, Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul Rosier, Paul C. Rosier, Jeffrey K. Stine, Martin Melosi, Four Arrows, Jacqui Katona, Rauna Kuokkanen, Pataka Moore, Rachael Selby, Phia Steyn, Peggy James, Jane Sayers, Ms Lois Gibbs, Professor Nancy Unger, Marja K. Bulmer, Bill E. Lawson, Jane Bloodworth Rowe, Stephen Wallace Taylor, Elise Tempelhoff, Johann Tempelhoff, Guy Thompson, Bookpleasures.Com, Professor Julie Sze, Cynthia J. Miller, Renée K. Gosson, Jeffrey Stine, Lois Gibbs, Julie Sze, Washington/Goodall/E Paperback, 458 Pages, Published 2006 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1432-2, ISBN: 0-7391-1432-8 "The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washing ..." |
 | | Fresh Kills A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City by Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 752 Pages, Published 2020 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18949-1, ISBN: 0-231-18949-4 "Fresh Kills―a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island―was once the world’s largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City’s refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin Towers, turning a notorious disposal site into a cemetery. Today, a mammoth reclamation project is transforming the landfill site, constructing an expansive par ..." |
 | | Atomic Age America(1st Edition) by Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-205-74254-7, ISBN: 0-205-74254-8 " Examines atomic energy as a lens to 20th and 21st-century America. Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy—focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power—on the lives of Americans within a world context. The text examines the social, political, diplomatic, environmental, and technical impacts of atomic energy on the 20th and 21st centuries, with a look back to the origins of atomic theory. ..." |
 | | Precious Commodity(1st Edition) Providing Water for America’s Cities (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Professor Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6141-3, ISBN: 0-8229-6141-5 "As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is resp ..." |
 | | Garbage In The Cities(Updated) Refuse Reform and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5857-4, ISBN: 0-8229-5857-0 "As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure - over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone - that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, Garbage in the Cities, Martin Melosi offered the first history of efforts begun in the Progressive Era to clean up this mess. Since it was first published, Gar ..." |
 | | Effluent America(1st Edition) Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5766-9, ISBN: 0-8229-5766-3 "What's the difference between an anthill and a city? Protection from weather and predators, living and working quarters, transportation networks, food storage capability - all these they hold in common. And while there are obvious differences between humans and ants, both exist in the same space and time dimension - in nature. This simple idea, imagining cities as part of the larger physical world, has driven the work of the historian M ..." |
 | | The Shadow of Pearl Harbor Political Controversy Over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946 by Professor Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2000 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-062-7, ISBN: 1-58544-062-0 "The Japanese surprise attack on U.S. forces in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, came as a tremendous shock to Americans. Accustomed to success and victory in every aspect of life, they found the Pearl Harbor disaster nearly impossible to understand. Thus, almost immediately the search began for a simple explanation why the United States was unprepared and why it should succumb in battle to a foe long considered inferior. "The Shadow of Pearl ..." |
 | | The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture(Updated) Volume 8: Environment (v. 8) by Martin V. Melosi, Charles Reagan Wilson, James G. Thomas Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5856-1, ISBN: 0-8078-5856-0 "From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume of "The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture" surveys the dynamic environmental forces that have shaped human culture in the region - and the ways humans have shaped their environment. Articles examine how the South's ecology, physiogra ..." |
 | | The Sanitary City(Abridged) Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Pittsburgh Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5983-0, ISBN: 0-8229-5983-6 "Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are the byproduct of many decades of development by engineers, sanitarians, and civic planners. In The Sanitary City, Martin V. Melosi assembles a comprehensive, thoroughly researched and ..." |
 | | Energy Metropolis(1st Edition) An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Martin V. Melosi, Joseph A. Pratt Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5963-2, ISBN: 0-8229-5963-1 "Houston's meteoric rise from a bayou trading post to the world's leading oil supplier owes much to its geography, geology, and climate: the large natural port of Galveston Bay, the lush subtropical vegetation, the abundance of natural resources. But the attributes that have made it attractive for industry, energy, and urban development have also made it particularly susceptible to a variety of environmental problems. "Energy Metropolis" ..." |
 | | Energy Capitals(1st Edition) Local Impact, Global Influence (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Joseph A. Pratt, Martin V. Melosi, Kathleen A. Brosnan Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6266-3, ISBN: 0-8229-6266-7 "Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As "Energy Capitals" demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred. With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more r ..." |
 | | Thomas Edison(2nd Edition) by Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by Pearson ISBN-13: 978-0-205-53939-0, ISBN: 0-205-53939-4 " Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America is a captivating narrative which chronicles America’s most formidable inventor and contributor to modern technology. Martin Melosi creates a dynamic historical narrative by relating Edison’s personal history to larger cultural, political and economic trends. Melosi adeptly reveals the workings of Edison’s mind as well as his inventions’ lasting affect on the nation. Historian ..." |
 | | Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America(1st Edition) (Library of American Biography Series) by Martin V. Melosi Paperback, 221 Pages, Published 1997 by Longman ISBN-13: 978-0-673-39625-9, ISBN: 0-673-39625-8 " Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America is a captivating narrative that chronicles America’s most formidable inventor. Martin Melosi creates a dynamic historical narrative by relating Edison’s personal history to larger cultural, political and economic trends. Melosi adeptly reveals the workings of Edison’s mind as well as his inventions’ lasting affect on the nation. The titles in the Library of American Biography Serie ..." |
 | | Urban Public Policy(1st Edition) Historical Modes and Methods (Issues in Policy History ; #3) by Martin A. Melosi Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1993 by Penn State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-271-01093-9, ISBN: 0-271-01093-2 "The 1992 Los Angeles riots catapulted the problems of the city back onto the policy agenda. The cauldron of social problems of the city, as the riots showed, offers no simple solutions. Indeed, urban policy includes a range of policy issues involving welfare, housing, job training, education, drug control, and the environment. The myriad of local, state, and federal agencies only further complicates formulating and implementing coherent ..." |
 | | Coping With Abundance(1st Edition) Energy and Environment in Industrial America 1820-1980 by Martin V. Melosi Hardcover, 355 Pages, Published 1985 by Temple Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87722-372-6, ISBN: 0-87722-372-6 |
 | | Fresh Kills A History Of Consuming And Discarding In New York City by Melosi, Martin V Published 2020 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18948-4, ISBN: 0-231-18948-6 |
 | | New World Cities Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas by John Tutino, Martin V. Melosi Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2019 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4874-3, ISBN: 1-4696-4874-1 "For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars look at the similar but nevertheless divergent courses taken ..." |
 | | Public History and the Environment(1st Edition) (Public History Series) by Martin V. Melosi, Philip V. Scarpino, Krieger Pub Co Hardcover, 291 Pages, Published 2002 by Krieger Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-1-57524-071-8, ISBN: 1-57524-071-8 "This volume has essays by public and academic historians with working experience on topics, which describe and analyse linkages between public history and the environment and treat some of the ways that historians present environmental issues to the public." |
 | | The Sanitary City Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Creating the North American Landscape) by Martin V. Melosi Hardcover, 600 Pages, Published 1999 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-6152-9, ISBN: 0-8018-6152-7 "An invisible infrastructure defines a significant portion of the American urban experience, affecting everything from the quality of the water we drink to the frequency of our trash collection to the pressure of the flush in our toilets. In The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present, Martin V. Melosi studies water supply, wastewater, and solid-waste-disposal systems in U.S. cities from the colo ..." |
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