Crude reality: petroleum in world history
In: Exploring world history
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In: Exploring world history
In: The journal of American history vol. 99, no. 1
In: Special issue
In: Great debates in American environmental history 2
In: Great debates in American environmental history 1
In: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Nature and the Environment in Everyday Life Series
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Designing the Human Future -- 1. Resource Expansion -- 2. The Drive for Parks -- 3. Pollution and City Life -- 4. Resource Management and Conservation -- 5. Expansive Possibilities: Life with the Bomb -- 6. Grassroots Activism and Environmental Concern -- 7. Creating a Political Framework for Environmental Action -- 8. Green Culture -- 9. Going Global -- 10. Environmental Backlash and Growing Energy Needs -- Epilogue: Sifting Through the Debris of Hurricane Katrina -- Bibliography -- Index.
In: Creating the North American landscape
In: Labor history, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 351-352
ISSN: 1469-9702
In: History of the urban environment
Introduction / Brian C. Black -- Ideal and reality in the early city -- William Penn's Philadelphia : the land and the plan / Craig Zabel -- "Pro bono publico" : ecology, history, and the creation of Philadelphia's fairmount park system / Elizabeth Milroy -- The rise and fall of yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793-1805 / Thomas Apel -- Locating patterns of industry and commerce in the expanding city -- Bone boilers : nineteenth-century green businessmen? / Donna J. Rilling -- "Publick service" versus "mans properties" : dock creek and the origin of urban technology in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Michal McMahon -- Industrial suburbs : environmental liabilities or assets? / Carolyn T. Adams -- Landscape transformation in the growing city -- The grid versus nature : the history and legacy of topographical change in Philadelphia / Adam Levine -- Fed by the adjoining waters : the Delaware estuary's marine resources and the shaping of Philadelphia's metropolitan orbit / Michael J. Chiarappa -- Metropolitan Philadelphia : sprawl, shrinkage, and sustainability / Robert J. Mason -- Confronting the ecologies of the modern city -- Restoring Mill creek : landscape, literacy, environmental history, and city planning and design / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Saving ourselves by acting locally : the historical progression of grassroots environmental justice activism in the Philadelphia area, 1981-2001 / Diane Sicotte -- Planning the food secure city : Philadelphia's agriculture, retrospect and prospect / Domenic Vitiello -- Wolves in the Wissahickon : deer, humans, and the problem of ecology in an urban park / Ann N. Greene -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index
In: Historical guides to controversial issues in America
What we know : a brief history of the earth and its climate -- How we know : a brief history of global warming research -- How did we get here? -- Domestic politics and ethics regarding the environment -- The international response -- Present and future policy options -- Epilogue: Integrating global warming into Federal action
"Can secularism continue to provide a foundation for political legitimacy? It is often claimed that one of the cultural achievements of the West has been its establishment of secular democracy, wherein religious belief is respected but confined to the sphere of private belief. In more recent times, however, political secularism has been increasingly called into question. Religious believers, in numerous traditions, have protested against the distortion and confinement that secularism imposes on their faith. Others have become uneasily aware of the way in which secularism no longer commands universal assent in the way it once did.Confronting Secularism in Europe and India adds to this debate by staging a creative encounter between European and Indian conceptions of secularism with a view to continuing new and distinctive trajectories of thought about the place and role of secularism in contemporary times. Looking at political secularism, the relationship between secularism and religion, and religious and secular violence, this book considers whether there are viable alternatives to secularism in Europe and in India"--