<b>Martin V. Melosi</b> is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. Melosi received the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), and the Esther Farfel Award from the University of Houston. He has served as president of the ASEH, the National Council on Public History, the Public Works Historical Society, and the Urban History Association. Melosi has written or edited nineteen books, including the award-winning <i>The Sanitary City</i>, and most recently, <i>Atomic Age America.</i>
8 电子书 Martin Melosi
Heather Goodall & Paul Rosier: Echoes from the Poisoned Well
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 …
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Martin V. Melosi: New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
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 vo …
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€91.17
Martin Melosi: Effluent America
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 …
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Martin Melosi: Garbage In The Cities
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 cl …
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Martin Melosi & Joseph Pratt: Energy Metropolis
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 subtr …
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Martin Melosi: The Sanitary City
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 proces …
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€54.99
Martin Melosi: Precious Commodity
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 corporatio …
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Joseph Pratt & Martin Melosi: Energy Capitals
Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As <i>Energy Capitals</i> demonstrates, the discovery …
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€49.99