"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England developed on the banks of the Upper Saint John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This emergent economy was...

"A higher education History primary source textbook that embraces an argument based model for teaching history. It is part of the Debating American History series, and covers mass consumer culture in the 1920s."

This book presents studies of ways in which people and organizations deal with the overflow of information, goods, or choices. The contributors explore two main themes. The first is the emergence of overflows: What is defined as overflow? Here the notion of framing as coined by Michel Callon has...

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the universal declaration of human rights / Jo E. Butterfield and Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Daisy Bates and the NAACP / Bridget Gurtler -- Wangari Maathai and the Kenyan environmental and democratic movements / Rosemary Ndubuizu and...

"Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a...

The sustainability paradox and the conflicts on use of natural resources / E. Gunilla Almered Olsson and Pernille Gooch -- Natural conflicts in the capitalocene / Pernille Gooch, Anders Burman and E. Gunilla Almered Olsson -- Water, conflicts and sustainable development / Sofie Hellberg --...