Cities and Nature in the American West 9780874178470, 9780874178241

Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast 9780295804453, 9780295992082

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities,

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Women in the American West 9781598840513, 9781598840506

Twenty years after many Western historians first turned their attention toward women, Women in the American West synthes

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Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture 9781474269827, 9781474269858, 9781474269841

From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands an

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The Necessary Earth: Nature and Solitude in American Literature 9781477300954

The Necessary Earth is a study of the degree to which the long American experience with an open frontier has entered int

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Mary Austin and the American West 9780520942264

Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family we

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Nature and Culture in the American Gothic 9786062617011

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Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West 9780813946047

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debat

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Educational Research in Major American Cities 9780231881418

Looks at the organization, activities, and accomplishments of a selected number of city school research bureaus, with th

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Revitalizing American Cities 9780812208887

Revitalizing American Cities explores the historical, regional, and political factors that have allowed some small indus

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Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities 9781350223820, 9781780324562

Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only be

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