TY - JOUR
AU - LaFeber, Walter
AB - 1494 The Journal of American History March 2005 gions where they work. Joel A. Tarr’s edited class with mounting debt and reduced options collection of essays on Pittsburgh’s environ- or the imposition of federal standards. mental history addresses the relationship of Most of Pittsburgh’s environmental story is Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers and the relation- a story of failure, sometimes failure caused by ship of the city and its inhabitants to the phys- ignorance or lack of foresight, sometimes by greed and self-interest, sometimes by a lack of ical world—both the natural and the humanly perspective. Some of that failure, as in the case produced. Tarr and Edward Muller introduce of Nine Mile Run, is—as Sam Hays points the collection by placing Pittsburgh in the out in his devastating critique of Pittsburgh’s natural world of three rivers, coal, iron ore, “renewal”—recent in origin and not a product and other resources and the humanly created of decisions made 120 years ago. world. They also stress that people live in This work links together technology, geog- Pittsburgh’s environment, that different peo- raphy, politics, and society. Unlike most col- ple experience that world differently, and that lections of essays the pieces in this work 
TI - Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy. By David Paull Nickles. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 265 pp. $30.95, isbn 0-674-01035-3.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3660266
DA - 2005-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/under-the-wire-how-the-telegraph-changed-diplomacy-by-david-paull-ePUZlX0V9T
SP - 1494
EP - 1495
VL - 91
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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