| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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Book Review

Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast. Edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. vii + 344pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, and index. Paper $27.95.

The growth of cities offers environmental historians unique case studies in the interaction of humans and nature. With each city different, recent additions to the literature include environmental histories of Chicago (William Cronon), Seattle (Matthew Klingle), New Orleans (Craig Colten), St. Louis (Andrew Hurley), and Pittsburgh (Joel Tarr), to name only a few. No one to date, however, has studied in any serious way the city of Houston, a city whose past, one might argue, has more to say about the future than any other. With this new book, a collection of twelve essays edited by Martin Melosi and Joseph Pratt, this glaring hole in the literature is no more.

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