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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434975363
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Americans Held Hostage by the Environmentalist Movement written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Kline
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780965502955
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book First Along the River written by Benjamin Kline and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Along the River is the first concise, accessible, and informative introduction to the U.S. environmental movement that covers the colonial period through 1999. It provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history. The book highlights important people and events, places critical concepts in context, and shows the impact of government, industry, and population on the American landscape. Comprehensive yet brief, First Along the River discusses the religious and philosophical beliefs that shaped Americans' relationship to the environment, traces the origins and development of government regulations that impact Americans' use of natural resources, and shows why popular environmental groups were founded and how they changed over time.
Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826455727
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States written by Chad Montrie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 twentieth century, ordinary Americans have been at the forefront of organizing to save themselves and their communities from environmental harm. This interpretation is nothing short of a substantial recasting of the past, giving a more accurate picture of what happened, when, and why at the beginnings of the environmental movement.
Author : Philip Shabecoff
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597267597
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Fierce Green Fire written by Philip Shabecoff and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days of the republic to the present. He offers a sweeping overview of the contemporary environmental movement and the political, economic, social and ethical forces that have shaped it. More importantly, he considers what today's environmental movement needs to do if it is to fight off the powerful forces that oppose it and succeed in its mission of protecting the American people, their habitat, and their future.Shabecoff traces the ecological transformation of North America as a result of the mass migration of Europeans to the New World, showing how the environmental impulse slowly formed among a growing number of Americans until, by the last third of the 20th Century, environmentalism emerged as a major social and cultural movement. The efforts of key environmental figures -- among them Henry David Thoreau, George Perkins Marsh, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, David Brower, Barry Commoner, and Rachel Carson -- are examined. So, too, are the activities of non-governmental environmental groups as well as government agencies such as the EPA and Interior Department, along with grassroots efforts of Americans in communities across the country. The author also describes the economic and ideological forces aligned against environmentalism and their increasing successes in recent decades. Originally published in 1993, this new edition brings the story up to date with an analysis of how the administration of George W. Bush is seeking to dismantle a half-century of progress in protecting the land and its people, and a consideration of the growing international effort to protect Earth's life-support systems and the obstacles that the United States government is placing before that effort. In a forward-looking final chapter, Shabecoff casts a cold eye on just what the environmental movement must do to address the challenges it faces.Now, at this time when environmental law, institutions, and values are under increased attack -- and opponents of environmentalism are enjoying overwhelming political and economic power -- A Fierce Green Fire is a vital reminder of how far we have come in protecting our environment and how much we have to lose.
Author : Riley E. Dunlap
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780844817309
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Environmentalism written by Riley E. Dunlap and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ellen Spears
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136175296
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 written by Ellen Spears and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of those who created the movement and those who tried to thwart them. Concentrating on the decades since World War II, environmental historian Ellen Griffith Spears explores environmentalism as a "field of movements" rooted in broader social justice activism. Noting major legislative accomplishments, strengths, and contributions, as well as the divisions within the ranks, the book reveals how new scientific developments, the nuclear threat, and pollution, as well as changes in urban living spurred activism among diverse populations. The book outlines the key precursors, events, participants, and strategies of the environmental movement, and contextualizes the story in the dramatic trajectory of U.S. history after World War II. The result is a synthesis of American environmental politics that one reader called both "ambitious in its scope and concise in its presentation." This book provides a succinct overview of the American environmental movement and is the perfect introduction for students or scholars seeking to understand one of the largest social movements of the twentieth century up through the robust climate movement of today.
Author : J. Brooks Flippen
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807148253
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conservative Conservationist written by J. Brooks Flippen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of American environmentalism, Russell E. Train plays a starring role. Few individuals have been so influential in creating the United States' environmental policies and encouraging conservation efforts around the world. In this absorbing new biography, J. Brooks Flippen describes Train's significance within the fascinating history of the contemporary environmental movement. A lifelong Republican, Train left a successful judicial career to found the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation. As the problems of pollution and unrestrained growth became apparent, he adopted a more ecological approach to nature and became a leader of the emerging environmental movement of the 1960s. He soon headed the Conservation Foundation, one of the first organizations to appreciate that humans represent only one strand in the "web of life." President Richard Nixon appointed Train as the initial chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality just as the country celebrated its first Earth Day. There he helped craft the most important environmental legislation in U.S. history. After three years, he became administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, enforcing regulations during the Energy Crisis and much of the troubled 1970s. With the election of Democrat Jimmy Carter, Train returned to the private sector as head of the American affiliate of the World Wildlife Fund. He found himself increasingly at odds with many Republicans as a new, more ideological brand of conservatism grew and bipartisanship faded. Train's Republican credentials and environmental advocacy made him a vestige of the past and, in a sense, a hope for the future. Given complete access to the personal papers and recollections of Russell Train, Flippen casts an unbiased eye on this remarkable man and the causes he has so fervently promoted. Of a prominent Washington family, Train has known every president from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush. His life and career illustrate the political dynamics of modern environmentalism and illuminate the insider culture of Washington, D.C.
Author : Glen Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780936783260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Goodbye Green written by Glen Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long ago it seems the whole country was working to clean up our air, land and water. Environmental bills were made into law, recycling swept the nation, politicians campaigned and won on environmental issues and school children were learning earth-saving songs and plays. What happened? Where did the environmental movement go? In Goodbye Green, Glen Duncan boldly declares the environmental movement dead, outlines exactly what happened and explains why throngs of middle Americans dropped out. He exercises his award-winning reporting skills once again to reveal how trade unions, civil rights groups, international environmental groups and even the federal government barged into a hugely successful grassroots movement and how their extremism then chased middle Americans away. Glen takes you along on a confrontational Greenpeace action, gives you a peek into the anti-earthday held by extreme environmentalists fed-up with moderates within the movement and then leads you through the lawyers' boondoggle called Superfund. Hang on for a good, fast read that'll make you wary of giving any more of your money or your time to save the earth.
Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 : 9780816030460
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Environmental Movement written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth survey of efforts made by Americans to preserve and protect the natural world and its precious, limited resources.
Author : Riley E. Dunlap
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317758803
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Environmentalism written by Riley E. Dunlap and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. Hailed as required reading for environmental sociologist and social movements, this book is written as a scholarly work and from a social science perspective; and is an ideal textbook for environmental courses.
