03254nam 2200601Ia 450 991078197580332120230725053506.00-8264-5572-71-283-30781-297866133078111-4411-7545-8(CKB)2550000000057358(EBL)793289(OCoLC)758336089(MiAaPQ)EBC793289(Au-PeEL)EBL793289(CaPaEBR)ebr10505724(CaONFJC)MIL330781(MiAaPQ)EBC1744060(Au-PeEL)EBL1744060(OCoLC)884017359(EXLCZ)99255000000005735820111020d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA people's history of environmentalism in the United States[electronic resource] /Chad Montrie1st ed.London ;New York Continuum20111 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-1672-9 1-4411-9868-7 Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Shaking Up What, When, and Why; 1 Puritan to Yankee Redux: Farming, Fishing, and Our Very Own Dark, Satanic Mills; 2 Why "Game Wardens" Carry Guns and Interpretive Rangers Dress like Soldiers: Class Conflict in Forests and Parks; 3 Missionaries Find the Urban Jungle: Sanitation and Worker Health and Safety; 4 Green Relief and Recovery: By Which Working People and Nature Get a New Deal; 5 A Popular Crusade: Organized Labor Takes the Lead against Pollution6 To Stir Up Dissent and Create Turmoil: Inventing Environmental JusticeConclusion: Rethinking Environmentalism, Past, and Present; Bibliographic Essay: A Few Books and Articles That Changed the Way We Think about Class and the History of Environmentalism in the United States; Notes; Select Bibliography; IndexThis book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven by the increased leisure and wealth of an educated middle class. Chad Montrie's telling moves the origins of environmentalism much further back in time and attributes the growth of environmental awareness to working people and their families. From the antebellum era to the end of the twentieEnvironmentalismUnited StatesHistoryEnvironmental policyUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesEnvironmental conditionsEnvironmentalismHistory.Environmental policyHistory.333.720973363.7/03/0973Montrie Chad1495675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781975803321A people's history of environmentalism in the United States3719865UNINA