Overview :Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power on the lives of ... Read More
Overview :Consumption and Waste in American Environmental History is an accessible introduction to the consumption experience, wasting practices, and ... Read More
Overview :Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad ov... Read More
Overview :As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manur... Read More
Overview :As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become ... Read More
Overview :Houston's meteoric rise from a bayou trading post to the world's leading oil supplier owes much to its geography, geology, and climate: the ... Read More
Overview :The Japanese surprise attack on U.S. forces in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, came as a tremendous shock to Americans. Accustomed to success an... Read More
Overview :On July 31, 1937, seventeen-year-old Elmo Melosi, an Italian-American from suburban California, boarded the ocean liner Conte di Savoia in N... Read More
Overview :Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that prov... Read More