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Crabgrass Crucible : Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to tami...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Prologue: Green's Suburban Provenance; Chapter 1. Suburban Country Life; Part I. New York; Chapter 2. Nature's Suburbia; Chapter 3. Ecological Mixing and Nature Fixing; Chapter 4. Worrying about the Water; Part II. Los Angeles; Chapter 5. Missing Nature in Los Angeles; Chapter 6. Suburban Taming: From the Personal to the Political; Chapter 7. Anxious about the Air; Part III. Environmental Nation; Chapter 8. "The Environment" as a Suburban Place; Conclusion; Appendix: Figures 2-6; Notes; Note on Sources; Interviews; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M. | |
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| 520 | |a Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from s. | ||
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