LibGuides: HIST 107 (Caskey): Suggested Books

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Rivertown by Paul Stanton Kibel (Editor)
ISBN: 9780262277075
Publication Date: 2007-08-24
Examines efforts in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Jose, and other cities to reclaim postindustrial urban riverside land for use as open space, parks and housing.
A Story of Six Rivers by Peter Coates
ISBN: 9781780231440
Publication Date: 2013-06-01
Using four European and two North American rivers as examples, A Story of Six Rivers considers the place of rivers in our world and emphasizes the inextricable links between history, culture, and ecology.
A World of Rivers by Ellen Wohl
ISBN: 9780226904801
Publication Date: 2010-11-01
Explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world.

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The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden
ISBN: 0585325499
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Drawing on many similar efforts around the United States, from New York to Charleston, Seattle to Cincinnati, Hayden finds a broad new movement across urban preservation, public history, and public art to accept American diversity at the heart of the vernacular urban landscape. She provides dozens of models for creative urban history projects in cities and towns across the country.
Rivers lost, rivers regained: rethinking city-river relations by edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott
ISBN: 0822981599
Publication Date: 2017
Discusses how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and discusses more recent strategies to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting.
Urban Rivers by Stéphane Castonguay (Editor); Matthew Evenden (Editor)
ISBN: 9780822961857
Publication Date: 2012-05-02
Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interacted from the seventeenth century to the present.
What Is Urban History? by Shane Ewen
ISBN: 9781509501342
Publication Date: 2016-09-12
Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century.

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