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The environmental debate : a documentary history, with timeline, glossary, and appendices / / edited by Peninah Neimark and Peter Rhoades Mott



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Titolo: The environmental debate : a documentary history, with timeline, glossary, and appendices / / edited by Peninah Neimark and Peter Rhoades Mott Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amenia, NY : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2017]
©2017
Edizione: Third edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 347 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 333.720973
Soggetto topico: Environmentalism - United States - History
Environmental protection - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): NeimarkPeninah
MottPeter Rhoades
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of American environmental thought and action -- Part II. Politicians, naturalists, and artists in the new nation, 1776-1839 -- Part III. The origins of environmental activism, 1840-1889 -- Part IV. The roots of the conservation movement, 1890-1919 -- Part V. Rethinking our relationship to nature, 1920-1959 -- Part VI. The heyday of the environmental movement, 1960-1979 -- Part VII. Confronting economic and social realities, 1980-1999 -- Appendix I: Significant dates in American environmental history -- Appendix II: Major conservation and environmental organizations -- Glossary -- Further readings -- Copyright acknowledgments.
Sommario/riassunto: This unique collection of Primary Documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, climate change, and resource conservation in America from the Colonial period the present.
Titolo autorizzato: The environmental debate  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78684-674-8
1-68217-551-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910466546303321
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