Description: Essays that investigate issues of race, class, consumption, and the body in an array of urban places, across a broad period from the late Renaissance to the present.
Review Quotes: The Nature of Cities demonstrates how environmental historians can better communicate their ideas to historians in other fields, suggests how social and cultural historians can interpret the past if they strive to integrate the insights of environmental historians, and indicates what environmental historians can produce by synthesizing a wide variety of scholarly literature.-- "ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY"