Water in North American Environmental History

ISBN-13: 9780367485535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 294 str.

Martin V. Melosi

Opis

Water in North American Environmental History offers twenty-five cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and the United States history.

Recenzje

2022 John Lyman Book Award honorable mention in the category of "Naval and Maritime Science and Technology":

"Teachers offering classes on environmental history, especially of either water or North America, will want to consider adding this book to their syllabi. Alternatively, the book could help hurried and harried instructors who need to give a class lecture or two on topics that appear here. College and university libraries should add it to their collections."

J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, USA in Environment and History

Spis treści

Part I Indigenous Peoples Before Contact  1. The Hohokam: The "Canal Builders" of the American Southwest  2. The Aztecs and the Founding of Tenochtitlan  3. The Inuit, Sea Ice, and Snow  Part II Colonialization and Early-Industrial Growth  4. Acequias and Spanish Water Law  5. The Origins of Commercial Fishing in Newfoundland  6. From Waterwheels to Steam Engines  Part III Expansionism and Western Settlement  7. The California Gold Rush: Placer and Hydraulic Mining   8. Capricious Border: The Rio Grande River  Part IV Commerce, Industry, and Urban Growth  9. Philadelphia’s Waterworks: Pioneering Clean Water for Cities  10. Water Rerouted: The Erie Canal  11. Building the Toronto Waterfront  12. The Lure of Falling Water: Niagara Falls  Part V The Mid-Twentieth Century  13. The Houston Ship Channel’s Environmental Footprint  14. "Levees-Only" in Louisiana and The Great Mississippi Flood  15. Salmon, Hydropower, and the Fraser River  Part VI The Post-War Years  16. Racism and Civil Rights in American/Canadian Swimming Pools  17. Detergent Phosphates in the Great Lakes  18. The Fluoride Controversy  19. Hurricane Hazel: In Canada  Part VII The New Ecology  20. Mexico’s Ixtoc 1 Oil Spill  21. The Ogallala Aquifer in Decline  22. Water Management and Privatization in Modern Mexico  Part VIII Social Crises/Environmental Injustices  23. The Flint Water Crisis  24. Maquiladoras and Water Pollution  25. To Frack or Not to Frack in Mexico  26. Postscript: Climate and Water

O autorze

Martin V. Melosi is Cullen Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, USA. He studies environmental and urban history and energy history.