Timothy LeCain’s new envirotech book, Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet (Rutgers University Press, 2009), has been chosen as an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2009″ by Choice, the review journal of the American Library Association. Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes [...]

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Tim LeCain’s book is out on Rutgers University Press!

MASS DESTRUCTION:
The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet (Rutgers University Press, 2009)

Timothy J. LeCain

Mass Destruction is the fascinating story of Daniel Jackling, a Utah mining engineer who created the gigantic Bingham open-pit copper mine near Salt Lake City. One of [...]

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Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
Ann Norton Greene
Harvard University Press, 2008
Historians have long assumed that new industrial machines and power sources eliminated work animals from nineteenth-century America, yet a bird’s-eye view of nineteenth-century society would show millions of horses supplying the energy necessary for industrial development. Horses were ubiquitous in cities and on [...]

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James Fleming encourages envirotech authors to contact him (jfleming@colby.edu) or Roger Launius (launiusr@si.edu) if they have manuscripts for Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.
For more information, see the series description.

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A new book from envirotechie Jeffrey K. Stine: America’s Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource
From the darkest, most forbidding swamp to the smallest soggy bog at the side of a housing development, wetlands provide invaluable ecological services to life on earth. Yet, prior to the 1930s, few people worried about the mounting loss of [...]

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As you may have noticed, the Envirotech Newsletter does now have a new format: from now on, all news items will be posted on the web page as they are submitted to the new newsletter editor at news@envirotechweb.org. We will send out newsletters like this email twice a year to summarize all news posts.
If you [...]

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Joy Parr shares this with us:
http://www.acqs.org/qc_studies_journal/table_of_contents.html
Québec Studies 42
Fall 2006/Winter 2007
Sharing Waters: St. Lawrence-Great Lakes
A special issue coordinated by Vincent Desroches and Sylvie Paquerot
Vincent Desroches and Sylvie Paquerot Sharing the Waters: The challenges of Understanding the Other
Madeleine Cantin-Cumyn Legal Status of Water in Quebec
Nicolas Milot and Laurent Lepage [...]

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The University of Akron Press Series on Technology and the Environment, edited by Stephen H. Cutcliffe seeks manuscripts that focus on the intersection of environmental history and the history of technology. Members of the special interest group, Envirotech, are particularly encouraged to submit their ms. or contact the Editor with questions.
Previously published volumes in [...]

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Is anyone here doing research, or working with, the United Nations’
Millennium Development Goals?
Luis
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The Vol. 3, No. 11, November 2007 issue of the
Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n11.html
has been posted. The focus this month is the question:
“IF NOT THE MDGs, THEN WHAT?”
Table of contents:
RESEARCH REPORT & MONTHLY DIGEST
1. Global News & Emerging Issues
2. Negative [...]

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The new book The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century by Clay McShane and Joel Tarr is now available from Johns Hopkins University Press. Read about it here.
The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

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