This Green and Growing Land (eBook)

Environmental Activism in American History

Kevin C. Armitage (Autor)

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2017
302 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3708-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In this concise and engaging survey of more than 250 years of American environmental activism to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society, historian Kevin Armitage tells the story of a magnificent American achievement—and the ongoing problems that environmentalism faces today.

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From Benjamin Franklin's campaign to combat pollution at the Philadelphia's docks in the 1750s to the movement against climate change today, American environmentalists have sought to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society. In This Green and Growing Land, historian Kevin Armitage shows how the story of American environmentalism-part philosophy, part social movement--is in no small way a story of America itself, of the way citizens have self-organized, have thought of their communities and their government, and have used their power to protect and enrich the land. Armitage skillfully analyzes the economic and social forces begetting environmental change and emphasizes the responses of a variety of ordinary Americans-as well as a few well-known leaders-to these complex issues. This concise and engaging survey of more than 250 years of activism tells the story of a magnificent American achievement-and the ongoing problems that environmentalism faces.

Autor

Dr. Kevin Connor Armitage is a professor of history at the University of Miami – Ohio.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Horns in Dock CreekChapter 2: The Science and Nature of EmpathyChapter 3: Progressive Publics and the Social Natural OrderChapter 4: A Green New DealChapter 5: A Wilderness SocietyChapter 6: Damming the Arid WestChapter 7: The Atomic Body PoliticChapter 8: Abundance in the Age of EcologyChapter 9: Science Denial in the Age of Global DisruptionBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: American Ways
• Zusatzinfo: 20 Illustrations including: - 20 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: conservation • Environment • environmental reform • Nature
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-3708-2 / 1442237082
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-3708-7 / 9781442237087