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Krakow : An Ecobiography /

"Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Krakow served as Poland's capital for half a millennium. It has functioned as a cultural center, an industrial center, a center of learning, and home for millions of people. Behi...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Szmytka, Rafał (Auteur, Éditeur intellectuel), Izdebski, Adam (Auteur, Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Polaco
Publié: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
Édition:[Revised version].
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Chapter 1: The climate history of Krakow / Konrad Wnęk, Adam Izdebski, and Leszek Kowanetz
  • Chapter 2: Krakow and its rivers / Andrzej Chwalba, with a contribution by Konrad Wnęk
  • Chapter 3: Plants in the lives of medieval Cracovians / Aldona Mueller-Bieniek
  • Chapter 4: A city Is not an island: early modern Kraków and natural resources / Piotr Miodunka
  • Chapter 5: Pollution in early modern Krakow / Rafał Szmytka
  • Chapter 6: Industrialization: the environmental end of Old Krakow? / Ewelina Szpak
  • Chapter 7: The history of Krakow smog / Adam Izdebski and Konrad Wnęk
  • Chapter 8: The power of myth: the imagined nature of Krakow / Małgorzata Praczyk.