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This collection is further evidence of a growing positive trend toward collaboration and interdisciplinarity between (environmental) history, geography, and related fields like science and technology studies. As such the text would be of great use to courses examining energy, natural resources, and environmental history from an industrial perspective; selections from the book might be appropriate and interesting additions to regional geography courses. But the text would also benefit courses in urban history, and perhaps also as additional readings in courses focused on economic geography, globalization, or any other situation that seeks to illustrate the physical and environmental impacts of natural resource-based economic growth. --Social & Cultural Geography

This collection is further evidence of a growing positive trend toward collaboration and interdisciplinarity between (environmental) history, geography, and related fields like science and technology studies. As such the text would be of great use to courses examining energy, natural resources, and environmental history from an industrial perspective; selections from the book might be appropriate and interesting additions to regional geography courses. But the text would also benefit courses in urban history, and perhaps also as additional readings in courses focused on economic geography, globalization, or any other situation that seeks to illustrate the physical and environmental impacts of natural resource-based economic growth. Social & Cultural Geography

This collection is further evidence of a growing positive trend toward collaboration and interdisciplinarity between (environmental) history, geography, and related fields like science and technology studies. As such the text would be of great use to courses examining energy, natural resources, and environmental history from an industrial perspective; selections from the book might be appropriate and interesting additions to regional geography courses. But the text would also benefit courses in urban history, and perhaps also as additional readings in courses focused on economic geography, globalization, or any other situation that seeks to illustrate the physical and environmental impacts of natural resource-based economic growth. --Social & Cultural Geography This collection is further evidence of a growing positive trend toward collaboration and interdisciplinarity between (environmental) history, geography, and related fields like science and technology studies. As such the text would be of great use to courses examining energy, natural resources, and environmental history from an industrial perspective; selections from the book might be appropriate and interesting additions to regional geography courses. But the text would also benefit courses in urban history, and perhaps also as additional readings in courses focused on economic geography, globalization, or any other situation that seeks to illustrate the physical and environmental impacts of natural resource-based economic growth. Social & Cultural Geography

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Joseph A. Pratt is the NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston where he has served as chair of the history department and interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He is the coordinator of the Energ Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Energy Metropolis: An Environmental Hi

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