Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America is a captivating narrative which chronicles America’s most formidable inventor and contributor to modern technology. Martin Melosi creates a dynamic historical narrative by relating Edison’s personal history to larger cultural, political and economic trends. Melosi adeptly reveals the workings of Edison’s mind as well as his inventions’ lasting affect on the nation. Historians have often designated robber barons and large trusts as the face of the rapid economic and technological advances of the Gilded Age. However, this book exposes students to a more refreshing look at America’s economic history, placing the inventor above the banker. The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretive biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

Thomas Edison (Library of American Biography Series) (2nd Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Melosi, Martin V.

Historical

Pearson

Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy¿focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power¿on the lives of Americans within a world context. The text examines the social, political, diplomatic, environmental, and technical impacts of atomic energy on the 20th and 21st centuries, with a look back to the origins of atomic theory.

Atomic Age America

History

Americas

Routledge

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Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City

Columbia University Press

Fresh Kills―a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island―was once the world’s largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City’s refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin Towers, turning a notorious disposal site into a cemetery. Today, a mammoth reclamation project is transforming the landfill site, constructing an expansive park three times the size of Central Park. Martin V. Melosi provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and disposal. He traces the metamorphoses of the landscape, following it from salt marsh to landfill to cemetery and looks ahead to the future park. By centering the problem of solid-waste disposal, Melosi highlights the unwanted consequences of mass consumption. He presents the Fresh Kills space as an embodiment of massive waste, linking consumption to the continuing presence of its discards. Melosi also uses the landfill as a lens for understanding Staten Island’s history and its relationship with greater New York City. The first book on the history of the iconic landfill, Fresh Kills unites environmental, political, and cultural history to offer a reflection on material culture, consumer practices, and perceptions of value and worthlessness.

Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1879-1930

Medical Books

Univ of Texas Pr

Water in North American Environmental History (Themes in Environmental History)

Business & Money

Economics

Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and United States history.Water has served a myriad of purposes historically as human sustenance, agricultural irrigation, sanitation, fire protection, military defense, power generation, transportation, and much more. Water and its uses provide an excellent entrée into the study of humans and the environment, not only because water is a vital resource for life, but also because water as a medium is so intimately woven into the everyday experiences of humans and into society's economic, political, and social fabric. A North American perspective is not representative of the world's water use, but it is an area with a linked history and many overlapping human and environmental features and concerns. With a continental perspective, the book explores many disparate topics without being confined to the history and experiences of just one country. The chapters are short, but descriptive, and departure points for what they tell us about the human experience in dealing with water and the environmental implications of water use. The text leads students to consider water in relation to society, and to the past.The book will be of interest to students of environmental history, geography, and the environmental sciences.

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Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America (Review Copy)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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Thomas Edison (Library of American Biography Series) (2nd Edition)

Atomic Age America

Atomic Age America

MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Atomic Age America

Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City

Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City

Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1879-1930

Water in North American Environmental History (Themes in Environmental History)

Water in North American Environmental History (Themes in Environmental History)

Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America (Review Copy)