A people's history of environmentalism in the United States /

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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Montrie, Chad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub., 2011.
Temas:
Environmental justice > United States.
Human ecology > United States > History.
Landscape changes > United States > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > United States > History.
Justice environnementale > États-Unis.
Paysages > Modifications > États-Unis > Histoire.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > États-Unis > Histoire.
History of the Americas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Ecology
Environmental justice
Human ecology
Landscape changes
Nature > Effect of human beings on
United States > Environmental conditions.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Puritan to Yankee Redux: Farming, Fishing, and Our Very Own Dark, Satanic Mills
  • Why "Game Wardens" Carry Guns and Interpretive Rangers Dress like Soldiers: Class Conflict in Forests and Parks
  • Missionaries Find the Urban Jungle: Sanitation and Worker Health and Safety
  • Green Relief and Recovery: By Which Working People and Nature Get a New Deal
  • A Popular Crusade: Organized Labor Takes the Lead against Pollution
  • To Stir Up Dissent and Create Turmoil: Inventing Environmental Justice.

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