Precious Commodity - Providing Water for America's Cities

About the author

Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. Melosi received the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), and the Esther Farfel Award from the University of Houston. He has served as president of the ASEH, the National Council on Public History, the Public Works Historical Society, and the Urban History Association. Melosi has written or edited nineteen books, including the award-winning The Sanitary City, and most recently, Atomic Age America.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Melosi, Martin V Melosi
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780822961413
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6141-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology