Environmental Studies
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Grass Roots
A History of Cannabis in the American West
By Nick Johnson
Oregon State University Press
Legal or not, marijuana cultivation has long had an impact on the environment and economy of the American West.
The Nature of Spectacle
On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism
By Jim Igoe
The University of Arizona Press
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
By Melanie Kiechle; Foreword by Paul Sutter
University of Washington Press
West Ham and the River Lea
A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914
By Jim Clifford
UBC Press
This original account of industrial London’s expansion into West Ham’s suburban marshlands highlights how pollution, poverty, and water shortages fuelled social democracy in Greater London.
