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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.

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

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"--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: A Good Set of Walking Shoes Mark D. Hersey -- I. Facing Limits -- 1. Subversive Subjects: Donald Worster and the Radical Origins of Environmental History / Ted Steinberg -- 2. Can Capitalism Ever Be Green? / Adam Rome -- 3. Seeing Like a God: Environmentalism in the Anthropocene / Frank Zelko -- 4. The Locked Door: Thomas Midgley Jr., Chlorofluorocarbons, and the Unintended Consequences of Technology / Kevin C. Armitage -- 5. Malibu, California: Edenic Illusions and Natural Disasters / Christof Mauch -- 6. Energizing Environmental History / Brian C. Black -- II. World Without Borders -- 7. The Force of Fiber: Reconnecting the Philippines with Latin America and the American West via Transnational Environmental History / Sterling Evans -- 8. Hunting and Wilderness in the Creation of National Identities / Mikko Saikku -- 9. Why We Need Comparative History: The Case of China and the United States / Shen Hou -- 10. The World in a Tin Can: Migrants in Environmental History / Marco Armiero -- 11. Down in the Sky: The Promise of Aerial Environmental History / Robert Wellman Campbell -- 12. Rivers of Dust: An Environmental Historian Appraises the American Legal System / Karl Boyd Brooks -- III. Doing Environmental History -- 13. Whole Earth without Borders: Earth Photographs, Space Data, and the Importance of Visual Culture within Environmental History / Neil M. Maher -- 14. Beyond Stories: Geospatial Influences on the Practice of Environmental History / Sara M. Gregg -- 15. Low-Hanging Fruit: Science and Environmental History / Edmund Russell -- 16. The Watershed of War: Environmental History and the "EBig Civil War" / Brian Allen Drake -- 17. War from the Ground Up: Integrating Military and Environmental Histories / Lisa M. Brady