The Dawn of Green

The Dawn of Green
Author: Harriet Ritvo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2009-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226720845

Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation—and helped launch the environmental movement as we know it. Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred miles south to the burgeoning industrial city and its workforce. This feat of civil engineering—and of natural resource diversion—inspired one of the first environmental struggles of modern times. The Dawn of Green re-creates the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between conservationists who wished to preserve the lake and developers eager to supply the needs of a growing urban population. Bringing to vivid life the colorful and strong-minded characters who populated both sides of the debate, noted historian Harriet Ritvo revisits notions of the natural promulgated by romantic poets, recreationists, resource managers, and industrial developers to establish Thirlmere as the template for subsequent—and continuing—environmental struggles.

The Silk Roads

The Silk Roads
Author: Vadime Elisseeff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571812223

A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations.

Geography

Geography
Author: Alexander B. Murphy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1509523049

Ever since humans sketched primitive maps in the dirt, the quest to understand our surroundings has been fundamental to our survival. Studying geography revealed that the earth was round, showed our ancestors where to plant crops, and helped them appreciate the diversity of the planet. Today, the world is changing at an unprecedented pace, as a result of rising sea levels, deforestation, species extinction, rapid urbanization, and mass migration. Modern technologies have brought people from across the globe into contact with each other, with enormous political and cultural consequences. As a subject concerned with how people, environments, and places are organized and interconnected, geography provides a critical window into where things happen, why they happen where they do, and how geographical context influences environmental processes and human affairs. These perspectives make the study of geography more relevant than ever, yet it remains little understood. In this engrossing book, Alexander B. Murphy explains why geography is so important to the current moment.

The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950

The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
Author: Susan Schulten
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2001-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226740553

Schulten examines four enduring institutions of learning that produced some of the most influential sources of geographic knowledge in modern history: maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools."--BOOK JACKET.

The Geographical Journal

The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1912
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.