Format:
XIX, 200 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9781580462204
,
1580462200
Series Statement:
Studies in comparative history 8
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: new directions in urban environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Urban spaces, death, and the body -- New Orleans's phantom slave insurrection of 1853: racial anxiety, urban ecology, and human bodies as public spaces / Ari Kelman -- Green space and class in imperial London / Peter Thorsheim -- The war on rats verses the right to keep chickens: plague and the paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908 / Joanna L. Dyl -- Dead bodies in Harlem: environmental history and the geography of death / Ellen Stroud -- The geography of power and consumption -- Friend or flood? the dilemmas of water management in early modern Venice / Karl Appuhn -- Banking on Sacramento: urban development, flood control, and political legitimization, 1848-1862 / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Fair play: outdoor recreation and environmental inequality in twentieth-century Seattle / Matthew Klingle -- Cities deconstructed -- The palenque paradox: bush cities, bushmen, and the bush / Emmanuel Kreike -- "Paris et le désert français" : urban and rural enviromnemts in post-World War II France / Sara B. Pritchard
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Stadtentwicklung
;
Venedig
;
London
;
Geschichte 1800-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
