Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage

Carl A.Zimring; William L.Rathje

doi:10.4135/9781452218526

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Allen, M.Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008.

Amato, Joseph A.Dust. A History of the Small and the Invisible. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Bell, Michael. An Invitation to Environmental Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1998.

Bilitewski, B., G.Härdtle, and K.Marek. Waste Management. New York: Springer, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2008.08.001

Blumberg, L., and R.Gottlieb. War on Waste: Can America Win Its Battle With Garbage?Washington, DC: Island Press, 1989.

Boyd, A.The Australian Ugliness. Victoria, Australia: Penguin, 1960.

Brinkmann, R., and G. A.Tobin. Urban Sediment Removal: The Science, Policy, and Management of Street Sweeping. Boston: Kluwer Academic Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1515-9

Brown, P., and E.Mikkelsen. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Chua, B. H.Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003.

Clark, Eric. The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers. New York: Free Press, 2007.

Crooks, H.Giants of Garbage: The Rise of the Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution Control. Toronto: Lorimer, 1993.

Cross, Gary. An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Daunton, M. J., and M.Hilton. The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America. Oxford: Berg, 2001.

Dauvergne, P.The Shadows of Consumption. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

Dobraszczyk, P.Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London's Victorian Sewers. Reading, UK: Spire Books, 2009.

Donohue, Kathleen G.Freedom From Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Douglas, M.Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203361832

Engler, M.Designing America's Waste Landscape. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Faber, Daniel. Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993.

Frost, R., and G.Steketee. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. Boston: Hough ton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.1955.tb00363.x

Gille, Zsuzsa. From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Gillette, King C.The Human Drift [1894]. New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976.

Girling, R.Rubbish! Dirt on Our Hands and Crisis Ahead. London: Eden Project Books, 2005.

Goodman, D. C. and C.Chant, eds. The European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial to Post-Industrial City. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Gottfried, Robert S.The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. New York: Free Press, 1985.

Graedel, Thomas E., and Braden R.Allenby. Industrial Ecology and the Automobile. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Greco, Albert N., Clara E.Rodriguez, and Robert M.Wharton. The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.

Hall, D.A History of the Book in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02683813

Hamlin, C.Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain 1850–1854. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Hawkins, Guy. The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Hawkins, Guy, and S.Muecke. Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Henkin, D.The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Hine, Thomas. The Total Package: The Secret History and Hidden Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Other Persuasive Containers. Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1995.

Humphrey, K.Shelf Life: Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Ingold, Tim. The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987.

Kelly, John. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

McCarthy, Tom. Auto-Mania! Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

Melosi, M. V.Garbage in the Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Melosi, M. V.The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America From Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Miller, Heather M.-L.Archaeological Approaches to Technology. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007.

Mintz, Sydney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin, 1988.

Murray, R.Zero Waste. London: Greenpeace Environmental Trust, 2002.

Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521402156.053

Pellow, David. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Pellow, David. Resisting Global Toxics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.

Pendergrast, Mark. For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Rathje, W., and C.Murphy. Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

Reid, D.Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Renfrew, Colin, and PaulBahn. Archaeology: Theories Methods and Practice. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/634005

Rogers, Heather. Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. New York and London: New Press, 2005.

Royte, Elizabeth. Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.

Scanlan, John. On Garbage. London: Reaktion Books, 2005.

Schesinger, Mark. Aluminum Recycling. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2007.

Schiffer, Michael Brian, and Andrea R.Miller. The Material Life of Human Beings. London: Routledge, 1999.

Sherman, Irwin W.Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/589292

Shiva, Vandana. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68488-6_42

Smith, Maureen. The U.S. Paper Industry and Sustainable Production. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jiec.1997.1.3.69

Snow, W., and J.Dickinson. The End of Waste: Zero Waste by 2020. Auckland: Zero Waste New Zealand Trust, 2001.

Soper, Kate, MartinRyle, and LynThomas, eds. The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Strasser, S.Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.

Stuart, Tristram. Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1533/9781845697662.1.39

Szasz, Andrew. Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Talbot, Frederick, and ArthurAmbrose. Millions from Waste. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1920.

Tammemagi, H.The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Thompson, Michael, Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1351161032000163557

Thornton, J.Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Tompkins, Michael A., and Tamara L.Hartl. Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding and Compulsive Acquiring. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 2009.

Waring, George E., Jr.Street Cleaning and the Disposal of a City's Wastes: Methods and Results and the Effect Upon Public Health, Public Morals, and Municipal Prosperity. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898.

Zimring, Carl A.Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.