CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY

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.

By Federico Paolini Series: History of the Urban Environment The first English-language examination of the impact of Italian postwar reconstruction on the environment.

From the second half of the 1940s, various aspects of post-war reconstruction in Italy were notable driving forces of environmental change. This book presents a series of essays ranging from the use of natural resources, to environmental problems caused by means of transport, to issues concerning environmental politics and the dynamics of the environment movement. It concludes with a forecast about the environmental problems that will emerge in the public debate of the twenty-first century.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945932 • Hardback 64 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 224 pages • March 2020 • £35.00

Cultural Landscapes in India

Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed By Amita Sinha Makes the case for rethinking conventional approaches to conservation.

Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. This book subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. The book centres around imagining, enacting, and reclaiming landscapes as subjects and settings of living cultural heritage. Drawing on case studies from different regions of India, Sinha offers new interpretations of links between land and culture using different ways of seeing—transcendental, romantic, and utilitarian.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946427 • Hardback 50 color illus. • 254 x 178mm • 216 pages • June 2020 • £38.00

Inevitably Toxic

Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise Edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivian Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie Asks us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life.

Series: History of the Urban Environment

Not a day goes by that humans aren’t exposed to toxins in our environment—be it at home, in the car, or workplace. But what about those toxic places and items that aren’t marked? Why are we warned about some toxic spaces’ substances and not others? The essays in Inevitably Toxic consider the exposure of bodies in the United States, Canada and Japan to radiation, industrial waste, and pesticides.