Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment

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University of Pittsburgh Pre, Dec 1, 2000 - Science - 344 pages
Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
POLLUTION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
17
URBAN GROWTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
119
URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM
207
Notes
263
Index
315
Back Cover
327
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Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, and Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment.

 

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