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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 In Common. And While There Are Obvious Differences Between Humans And Ants, Both Exist In The Same Space And Time Dimension - In Nature. This Simple Idea, Imagining Cities As Part Of The Larger Physical World, Has Driven The Work Of The Historian Martin Melosi For Twenty-five Years. Melosi Is One Of A Handful Of Scholars Who Examine Urban History From An Ecological Perspective, Using The City To Help Define The Place Of Nature In Human Life. Cities, He Maintains, Are Places Where Humans Live, Work, Play, Consume Goods, And Make Waste - Just As Humans Have In Caves, On Farms, And In Villages. To Imagine The City As Outside Of Nature Limits What Can Be Known About Our Past, And Our Future.^ Effluent America Is A Collection Of Essays Spanning This Innovative Scholar's Career And The Growing Field Of Urban Environmental History. Garbage, Wastewater, Hazardous Waste: These Are The Lenses Through Which Melosi Views Nineteenth- And Twentieth-century America. In Broad Overviews And Specific Case Studi

Author

Martin V. Melosi

Publisher

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822972310

Subjects

History, Sociology, Management