Martin Melosi

Broschiertes Buch

Garbage in the Cities

Refuse Reform and the Environment

Beschreibung

This revised edition of a seminal work in the field of urban environmental history traces the development of waste management and related technologies from the Progressive Era to the present.

Autor

Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. Melosi received the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), and the Esther Farfel Award from the University of Houston. He has served as president of the ASEH, the National Council on Public History, the Public Works Historical Society, and the Urban History Association. Melosi has written or edited nineteen books, including the award-winning The Sanitary City, and most recently, Atomic Age America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780822958574
• ISBN-10: 0822958570
• Artikelnr.: 13623620