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WVU Press releases two books focused on the environment

Cutover Capitalism Book Cover

“Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest” and “Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara”  are scholarly monographs that address environmental concerns.

“Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest,” by historian Jason L. Newton, provides a fresh perspective on the process of industrialization in America through the study of rural workers in the recently cutover landscape of Maine’s forests circa the late 1800s and early 1900s. 

In “Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara,” professor of global development at Northumbria University Joanna Allan illuminates the role of imaginaries — how we understand energy sources such as wind and the meanings we attach to wind — in determining the wider politics associated with energy systems.

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