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9780471270195 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 1, 2003, cover price $24.95
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9780813536675 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $54.95
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9780821416464 | Ohio Univ Pr, January 2, 2006, cover price $55.00
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9780821416471 | Ohio Univ Pr, January 2, 2006, cover price $32.95
For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, the view from the road was the be-all and end-all of the highway; in others, such as the Italian autostrada, the view of a fast, efficient transportation machine celebrating either Fascism or its absence was the goal. These varied environments are neither necessary nor accidental but the outcomes of historical negotiations, and whether we abhor them or take delight in them, they have become part of the fabric of human existence.The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe is the first systematic, comparative look at these landscapes. By looking at examples from the United States and Europe, the chapters in this volume explore the relationship between the road and the landscape that it traverses, cuts through, defines, despoils, and enhances. The authors analyze the Washington Beltway and the Blue Ridge Parkway, as well as iconic roads in Italy, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and Great Britain. This is a story of the transatlantic exchange of ideas about environment and technology and of the national and nationalistic appropriations of such landscaping.
Hardcover:
9780821417676 | 1 edition (Ohio Univ Pr, April 15, 2008), cover price $49.95
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9780821417683 | 1 edition (Ohio Univ Pr, April 15, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us.
Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, industry, and commerce. They have been loved as nurturing providers, nationalist symbols, and the source of romantic lore but also loathed as sites of conflict and natural disaster. Rivers in History presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers. They view this dynamic relationship through political, cultural, industrial, social, and ecological perspectives in national and transnational settings. As integral sources of food and water, local and international transportation, recreation, and aesthetic beauty, rivers have dictated where cities have risen, and in times of flooding, drought, and war, where they've fallen. Modern Western civilizations have sought to control rivers by channeling them for irrigation, raising and lowering them in canal systems, and damming them for power generation. Contributors analyze the regional, national, and international politicization of rivers, the use and treatment of waterways in urban versus rural environments, and the increasing role of international commissions in ecological and commercial legislation for the protection of river resources. Case studies include the Seine in Paris, the Mississippi, the Volga, the Rhine, and the rivers of Pittsburgh. Rivers in History is a broad environmental history of waterways that makes a major contribution to the study, preservation, and continued sustainability of rivers as vital lifelines of Western culture.
Hardcover:
9780822943457 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, June 28, 2008, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience.
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9780822959885 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, June 28, 2008, cover price $27.95
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9781845452711 | Berghahn Books, September 1, 2010, cover price $34.95
Hardcover:
9781845453091 | Berghahn Books, November 29, 2007, cover price $99.00
Hardcover:
9780071750929, titled "Vascular Medicine: Therapy and Practice" | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill, November 29, 2010), cover price $146.00
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