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A Mighty Capital Under Threat The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000 Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim Series: History of the Urban Environment Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equalled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mideighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. This book investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946106 • Hardback 10 maps • 229 x 152mm • 480 pages • March 2020 • £40.00
Gone to Ground A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam By Emily Brownell Series: Intersections
The story of Dar es Salaam's environment and infrastructure. An investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the centre of this shift. It is built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946113 • Hardback 32 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • March 2020 • £35.00
Krakow An Ecobiography By Adam Izdebski Series: Russian and East European Studies Demonstrates a valuable environmental perspective to Poland's history. Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. It has functioned as a cultural centre, an industrial centre, and a centre of learning. Behind all of this lies the city's environment: its fauna and plant life, the Vistula River, the surrounding countryside rich with resources, and manmade change that has allowed the city to flourish. In Krakow: An Ecobiography, the contributors use the city as a lens to focus these social and natural intricacies to shed new light on one of Europe's urban treasures. University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946137 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 300 pages • September 2020 • £27.00
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