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Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Richard Rodger (eds), White Horse Press, 2011.The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities, yet few  European historians have tackled these subjects head on; nor have they  explored their relationships with social inequalities. In this  innovative collection of historical essays the contributors consider a  range of past environmental injustices, spanning seven northern and  western European countries and with several chapters adding a North  American perspective. In addition to an introductory chapter that  surveys approaches to this area of environmental history, individual  chapters address inequalities in the city as regards water supply, air  pollution, waste disposal, factory conditions, industrial effluents,  fuel poverty and the administrative and legal arrangements that  discriminated against segments of society.Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud is Professor at the École des Hautes  Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where she holds a chair in  Environmental History. Her last book, Histoire de la pollution industrielle, France 1789-1914, was published in 2010 (Paris: EHESS). She is currently completing, with Stephen Mosley, a book entitled Common Ground: Integrating the Social and Environmental in History (forthcoming, Newcastle: CSP). Since 2007 she has been the president of  the European Society for Environmental History. In France, she  initiated the RUCHE (Scholarly Network of Researchers in Environmental  History). At the beginning of 2010 she was appointed by the Humanities  and Social Sciences Institute and the Ecology and Environment Institute  of the CNRS to lead their common interdisciplinary research network in  Environmental History.Richard Rodger is Professor of Economic and Social History at  Edinburgh University. He has published widely on the economic, business  and urban history of Britain since 1800, was editor of Urban History  from 1987-2007, and joint editor for a series of forty books under the  title of ‘Historical Urban Studies’, published by Ashgate. His book The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Frank Watson Prize for works on Scottish history.  Ongoing research includes a project on the development of public and  environmental health in Victorian Scotland. In recognition of his  contributions to the study of economic and social history, Rodger was  elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004.TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION Chapter One: Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Richard Rodger, Reconsidering Justice in Past Cities: When Environmental and Social Dimensions MeetPART 1. Constructing the InjusticeChapter Two: Geoffrey L. Buckley and Christopher G. Boone, ‘To Promote the Material and Moral Welfare of the Community’:  Neighbourhood Improvement Associations in Baltimore, Maryland, 1900-45Chapter Three: Joanna Dean, The Social Production of a Canadian ForestPART 2. Managing RisksChapter Four: Tim Soens,  Threatened by the Sea, Condemned by Man? Flood Risk, Environmental  Justice and Environmental Inequalities along the North Sea Coast  1200-1800Chapter Five: Craig Colten, Floods and Inequitable Responses: New Orleans before Hurricane KatrinaPART 3. Water-related InequalitiesChapter Six: Jonas Hallström, Urban or Suburban Water? Working Class Suburbs, Technological Systems  and Environmental Justice in Swedish Cities in the Late Nineteenth  CenturyChapter Seven: Christoph Bernhardt, At the Limits of the European Sanitary City: Water-related Environmental Inequalities in Berlin-Brandenburg, c.1900-39PART 4 Waste and InequalitiesChapter Eight: Marcus Stippak, German Cities and their Sewage Systems: Darmstadt and Dessau in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesChapter Nine: Stéphane Frioux, Managing Urban Waste Disposal Facilities in France c.1900-40: A New Source of Inequality?PART 5 Energy and IndustryChapter Ten: Richard Oram, Social Inequality in the Supply and Use of Fuel in Scottish Towns c.1750-1850Chapter Eleven: Chloé Deligne and Wanda Balcers, Environmental Protest Movements against Industrial Waste in Belgium 1850-1914Chapter Twelve: Janet Greenlees, Technological Choice and Environmental Inequalities: The New England Textile IndustryAvailable 31st January 2011, 250pp. ISBN 13 978-1-874267-61-4 (HB) £65.00/US$90.00/€75.00The White Horse PressBooksOrders