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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sellers, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Suburbs.
Environmentalism.
Environmental policy.
Ecology.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Environmental policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Suburbs > United States > History > 20th century.
Environmentalism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
United States > Environmental conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • No; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z.

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