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- catalog abstract ""In Common Fields, environmental historian Andrew Hurley has gathered thirteen original essays to tell a compelling story of one city's history. It is a story built on the never-ending tension between urban growth and environmental sustainability - a tension that defines the fate not just of St. Louis, but of cities around the world. In these pages, geographers, archaeologists, and historians come together to consider the enduring ties between a city's diverse residents and the physical environment on which their well-being depends."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10179388.
- catalog coverage "Saint Louis (Mo.) Environmental conditions History.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""In Common Fields, environmental historian Andrew Hurley has gathered thirteen original essays to tell a compelling story of one city's history. It is a story built on the never-ending tension between urban growth and environmental sustainability - a tension that defines the fate not just of St. Louis, but of cities around the world. In these pages, geographers, archaeologists, and historians come together to consider the enduring ties between a city's diverse residents and the physical environment on which their well-being depends."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Common fields : an introduction / Andrew Hurley -- The environmental setting of the St. Louis region / Walter Schroeder -- Culture and environment in the American bottom : the rise and fall of Cahokia Mounds / William R. Iseminger -- Contested terrain : environmental agendas and settlement choices in colonial St. Louis / Patricia Cleary -- Where did the villages go? Steamboats, deforestation, and archaeological loss in the Mississippi Valley / F. Terry Norris -- Paving St. Louis's streets : the environmental origins of social fragmentation / Eric Sandweiss -- Draining the metropolis : the politics of sewers in nineteenth-century St. Louis / Katharine T. Corbett -- Re-imagining the urban landscape : fire risk and insurance in nineteenth-century St. Louis / Mark Tebeau -- Busby's stink boat and the regulation of nuisance trades, 1865-1918 / Andrew Hurley -- Environmental justice in the American bottom : the legal response to pollution, 1900-1950 / Craig E. Colten -- "The land of a million smiles" : urban tourism and the commodification of the Missouri Ozarks, 1900-1940 / Jennifer A. Crets -- The struggle for smoke control in St. Louis : achievement and emulation / Joel A. Tarr and Carl Zimring -- River dreams : St. Louis labor and the fight for a Missouri Valley authority / Rosemary Feurer -- Floods, rats, and toxic waste : allocating environmental hazards since World War II / Andrew Hurley.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.267-310) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 319 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Common fields.".
- catalog identifier "1883982154 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1883982162 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Common fields.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "St. Louis, Mo. : Missouri Historical Society Press,".
- catalog relation "Common fields.".
- catalog spatial "Missouri Saint Louis".
- catalog spatial "Saint Louis (Mo.) Environmental conditions History.".
- catalog subject "304.2/09778/65 21".
- catalog subject "GE155.M8 C66 1997".
- catalog subject "Sustainable development Missouri Saint Louis History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Common fields : an introduction / Andrew Hurley -- The environmental setting of the St. Louis region / Walter Schroeder -- Culture and environment in the American bottom : the rise and fall of Cahokia Mounds / William R. Iseminger -- Contested terrain : environmental agendas and settlement choices in colonial St. Louis / Patricia Cleary -- Where did the villages go? Steamboats, deforestation, and archaeological loss in the Mississippi Valley / F. Terry Norris -- Paving St. Louis's streets : the environmental origins of social fragmentation / Eric Sandweiss -- Draining the metropolis : the politics of sewers in nineteenth-century St. Louis / Katharine T. Corbett -- Re-imagining the urban landscape : fire risk and insurance in nineteenth-century St. Louis / Mark Tebeau -- Busby's stink boat and the regulation of nuisance trades, 1865-1918 / Andrew Hurley -- Environmental justice in the American bottom : the legal response to pollution, 1900-1950 / Craig E. Colten -- "The land of a million smiles" : urban tourism and the commodification of the Missouri Ozarks, 1900-1940 / Jennifer A. Crets -- The struggle for smoke control in St. Louis : achievement and emulation / Joel A. Tarr and Carl Zimring -- River dreams : St. Louis labor and the fight for a Missouri Valley authority / Rosemary Feurer -- Floods, rats, and toxic waste : allocating environmental hazards since World War II / Andrew Hurley.".
- catalog title "Common fields : an environmental history of St. Louis / edited by Andrew Hurley.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".