| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Ed. by Joel A. Tarr. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. x, 281 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-8229-4156-2.)

Pittsburgh, along with Gary, Indiana, had the reputation of a working town that was a bad place to live and a hard place to work. The popular mind identified the city with coal mines, iron, steel, and glass. (Its professional football team is called the Steelers.) Because of Pittsburgh's central place in the history of American industrialization, there have been a number of works on its labor and industrial histories. But people live in the physical regions where they work. Joel A. Tarr's edited collection of essays on Pittsburgh's environmental history addresses the relationship of Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers and the relationship of the city and its inhabitants to the physical world—both the natural and the humanly produced. Tarr and Edward Muller introduce the collection by placing Pittsburgh in the natural world of three rivers, coal, iron ore, and other resources and the humanly created world. They also stress that people live in Pittsburgh's environment, that different people experience that world differently, and that most of that difference is a product of class. Most of the authors in this collection remind the reader that the story of Pittsburgh is the story of a struggle over the control and utilization of environmental resources, including control over what became the collective sink.

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