Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America Contributor(s): Falck, Zachary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822964023 ISBN-13: 9780822964025 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - History | Historical Geography - Nature | Plants - General |
Dewey: 581.652 |
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
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Publisher Description: As long as humans have existed, they've worked and competed with plants to shape their surroundings. As cities developed and expanded, their diverse spaces were covered with and colored by weeds. In Weeds, Zachary J. S. Falck presents a comprehensive history of "happenstance plants" in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, he examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles. |