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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809986003321

Autore

Drake Brian Allen

Titolo

Loving nature, fearing the state : environmentalism and antigovernment politics before Reagan / / Brian Allen Drake ; foreword by William Cronon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-295-80485-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Weyerhaeuser environment books

Classificazione

HIS037070NAT011000POL042020

Altri autori (Persone)

CrononWilliam

Disciplina

333.720973

Soggetti

Environmentalism - United States - History

Environmentalism - Political aspects - United States

Environmental policy - United States - History

Radicalism - United States

Right and left (Political science)

Ideology - United States

United States Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction: Nature's Strange Bedfellows ""; ""Chapter 1. Arizona Portraits: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part I ""; ""Chapter 2. Precious Bodily Fluids: Fluoridation, Environmentalism, and Antistatism ""; ""Chapter 3. The Environmental Conscience of a Conservative: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part II ""; ""Chapter 4. Tending Nature with the Invisible Hand: The Free-Market Environmentalists ""; ""Chapter 5. Like a Scarlet Thread: Into the Political Wilderness with Edward Abbey ""; ""Epilogue: The Fading Green Elephant

Or, The Decline of Antistatist Environmentalism """"Notes ""; ""Selected Bibliography ""; ""Index ""