For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majoritie...

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, ...

Originally published in hardcover, 1977.

The early luxury of free forage on unclaimed western public domain allowed the building of fortun...

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majoritie...

Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of u...

Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of u...

Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.

Assembles a comprehensive researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America...

A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitate...

Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy, focusing particularly on nuclea...

Demonstrates that the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessin...

Examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalien...

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth-...

This revised edition of a seminal work in the field of urban environmental history traces the dev...

Consumption and Waste in American Environmental History is an accessible introduction to the cons...

Consumption and Waste in American Environmental History is an accessible introduction to the cons...