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William Wordsworth and the ecology of authorship the roots of environmentalism in nineteenth-century culture / by Hess, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Picturesque vision, photographic subjectivity, and the (un)framing of nature -- Wordsworth country: the Lake District and the landscape of genius -- Wordsworth's environmental protest: the Kendal and Windermere Railroad and the cultural politics of nature -- The Lake District and the museum of nature -- "My endless way": travel, gender, and the imaginative colonization of nature -- Epilogue: the ecology of authorship versus the ecology of community.…”
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Nature and history in modern Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.…”
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Flora and fauna of the Civil War an environmental reference guide / by Ouchley, Kelby, 1951-

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Environmental aspects.…”
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The nature of gold an environmental history of the Klondike gold rush / by Morse, Kathryn Taylor

Subjects: “…Gold mines and mining Environmental aspects Alaska.…”
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Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the British Atlantic world, 1770-1850 by Hutchings, Kevin (Kevin Douglas), 1960-

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Fishing a borderless sea environmental territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818-1910 / by Payne, Brian J.

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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

Table of Contents: “…From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas; 9. …”
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Notes from the ground science, soil, and society in the American countryside / by Cohen, Benjamin R.

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Eden on the Charles the making of Boston / by Rawson, Michael

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Sunset limited the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / by Orsi, Richard J.

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Clearing the coastline the nineteenth-century ecological & cultural transformation of Cape Cod / by McKenzie, Matthew G.

“…Cape Cod (Mass.) Environmental conditions.…”
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War upon the land military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / by Brady, Lisa M., 1971-

“…Environmental history and the American South.…”
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Eighteen hundred and froze to death : the impact of America's first climate crisis / by Dippel, John Van Houten, 1946-

“…Northeastern States Environmental conditions History 19th century.…”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

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Trees in nineteenth-century English fiction : the silvicultural novel / by Burton, Anna

“…Routledge environmental humanities…”
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Wild romanticism /

“…Routledge environmental literature, culture and media…”
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Victorian literature : an anthology /

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The once and future New York historic preservation and the modern city / by Mason, Randall, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…John's Chapel -- City Hall Park : hearth of official civic memory -- Bronx River Parkway : modern highway, environmental improvement, memory infrastructure -- Conclusion : looking critically at preservation's own past.…”
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State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic /

Table of Contents: “…Scott -- Slaughterhouses and milk consumption in the "sick republic": socio-environmental change and sanitary technology in Havana, 1890-1925 / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- Attributes for the capital of an austere republic / Jose Antonio Piqueras Arenas -- Transcending borders: tierra! …”
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Bodies and lives in Victorian England : science, sexuality, and the affliction of being female / by Stone, Pamela Kendall, Sanders, Lise, 1970-

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