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  • A Mighty Capital under Threat

    The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000

    Edited by Bill Luckin, Peter Thorsheim ...
    Series series
    Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A ... Read more

    $56.79 CAD

  • Resources of the City

    Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe

    Edited by Dieter Schott, Bill Luckin, Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud ...
    Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
    The field of urban environmental history is a relatively new one, yet it is rapidly moving to the forefront of scholarly research and is the focus of much interdisciplinary work. Given the environmental problems facing the modern world it is perhaps unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, natural and social scientists should increasingly look at the environmental problems faced by ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Death and Survival in Urban Britain

    Disease, Pollution and Environment, 1800-1950

    by Bill Luckin ...
    The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history. Here, the eminent urban historian Bill Luckin re-introduces a body of work which, published together for the first time, along with new material and contextualizing notes, marks the beginning of this important strand of historiography. Luckin charts ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Empire of Things

    How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    by Frank Trentmann ...
    The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 yearsWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How to Think Seriously About the Planet

    The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

    by Roger Scruton ...
    The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Wood

    A History

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that the handling of wood is a basic element in the history of the human body. The fear of a future wood famine became a panic in the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Shock of the Anthropocene

    The Earth, History and Us

    by Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

    Edited by Frank Trentmann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Against the Commons

    A Radical History of Urban Planning

    by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago ...
    An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commonsCharacterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Age of Ecology

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Waste and Consumption

    Capitalism, the Environment, and the Life of Things

    by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    This book examines the link between waste and consumption through a cultural approach that integrates environmental concerns with reflections on the role that consumption has come to occupy in our contemporary capitalist societies. The mutual relationship between capitalism and consumption is addressed along with early critiques of industrialization that exposed environmental problems. Toxic waste ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Power to the People

    Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries

    by Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, Paul Warde ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD