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Autore: | Montrie Chad |
Titolo: | A people's history of environmentalism in the United States [[electronic resource] /] / Chad Montrie |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
Disciplina: | 333.720973 |
363.7/03/0973 | |
Soggetto topico: | Environmentalism - United States - History |
Environmental policy - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Environmental conditions |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Pollution |
6 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; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 twentie |
Titolo autorizzato: | A people's history of environmentalism in the United States |
ISBN: | 0-8264-5572-7 |
1-283-30781-2 | |
9786613307811 | |
1-4411-7545-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781975803321 |
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