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In the urgently expanding field of environmental history, two trends are emerging. Research has internationalized, crossing political and historical borders. An

City and Country: The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems begins with a simple assumption: every human requires, on average, two-thousand calories per d

An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wa

"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phon