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Power on the Hudson : Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism /
The story of the Storm King Mountain power project involves three things, each of which was undergoing tremendous change in the 1960s and 1970s: environmentalism, energy, and the Hudson River Valley. Some historical background on these topics reveals how they influenced the struggle over the Storm K...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction Environmentalism energy, and the Hudson River Valley
- Part 1. The growing importance of ecology within environmentalism: Storm King, 1962-1965. 1. The co-optation of establishment environmentalism and the emergence of scenic Hudson
- 2. Scenic Hudson's losing effort
- 3. Scenic Hudson finds ecology and the Zeitgeist
- 4. The politics of Storm King
- 5. The scenic Hudson case. Part II. The struggle between energy and environmentalism: Storm King, 1966-1972. 6. 6. The Federal Power Commission versus environmentalists
- 7. Scenic Hudson attacks Con Ed's political support
- 8. The expansion of environmentalism in the Hudson River Valley. Part III. A new balance of power: Storm King, 1970-1980. 9. The proliferation of lawsuits in the Hudson River Valley
- 10. The sex life of striped bass and Con Ed's near-death experience
- 11. The Hudson River Peace Treaty of 1980
- Epilogue. The legacy of Storm King, 1980-2012.