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Tables of Contents for Common Fields
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Robert R. Archibald
Common Fields An Introduction
1
12
Andrew Hurley
The Environmental Setting of the St. Louis Region
13
25
Walter Schroeder
Culture and Environment in the American Bottom The Rise and Fall of Cahokia Mounds
38
20
William R. Iseminger
Contested Terrain Environment Agendas and Settlement Choices in Colonial St. Louis
58
15
Patricia Cleary
Where Did the Villages Go? Steamboats, Deforestation, and Archaeological Loss in the Mississippi Valley
73
17
F. Terry Norris
Paving St. Louis's Streets The Environmental Origins of Social Fragmentation
90
17
Eric Sandweiss
Draining the Metropolis The Politics of Sewers in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis
107
19
Katharine T. Corbett
Re-Imagining the Urban Landscape Fire Risk and Insurance in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis
126
19
Mark Tebeau
Busby's Stink Boat and the Regulation of Nuisance Trades, 1865-1918
145
18
Andrew Hurley
Environmental Justice in the American Bottom The Legal Response to Pollution, 1900-1950
163
13
Craig E. Colten
"The Land of a Million Smiles" Urban Tourism and the Commodification of the Missouri Ozarks, 1900-1940
176
23
Jennifer A. Crets
The Struggle for Smoke Control in St. Louis Achievement and Emulation
199
22
Joel A. Tarr
Carl Zimring
River Dreams St. Louis Labor and the Fight for a Missouri Valley Authority
221
21
Rosemary Feurer
Floods, Rats, and Toxic Waste Allocating Environmental Hazards Since World War II
242
21
Andrew Hurley
Contributors
263
4
Notes
267
44
Acknowledgments
311
2
Index
313