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The Extraction State A History of Natural Gas in the United States By Charles Blanchard
Explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s and fell apart in the 1970s. The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. Beginning in the 1880s, this book explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s, even before the Great Depression, and how it fell apart in the 1970s. From there, the book dissects the policies that affect us today, and explores where we might be headed in the near future.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946366 • Hardback • 57 b/w illus. 229 x 152mm • 416 pages • November 2020 • £38.00
Germany's Urban Frontiers Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City By Kristin Poling Series: History of the Urban Environment
Case studies examining the history of frontier landscapes in Germany. In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany’s many growing cities. This is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had long defined central European cities disappeared. University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946410 • Hardback 18 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • September 2020 • £38.00
Motor City Green A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit By Joseph Stanhope Cialdella Series: History of the Urban Environment
The history of Detroit through an environmental lens. This is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenthto early twenty-first century, focusing primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. The book looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945727 • Hardback • 43 b/w illus. 229 x 152mm • 246 pages • March 2020 • £27.00
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