Robert Gioielli

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis

Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert R. Gioielli is Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781439904664
• ISBN-10: 1439904669
• Artikelnr.: 42605181

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
 Introduction: The Uncounted Environmentalists
 1 The Breakdown of the City
 2 "Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities": St. Louis and the Fight against
Lead Poisoning
 3 "We Must Destroy You to Save You": Baltimore's Freeway Revolt
 4 The Knee-in-the-Groin Approach: The Citizen's Action Program and
Environmental Protest in Chicago
 5 "City Dwellers Are in the Greatest Danger": Urban Environmentalism in
the 1970s
 Conclusion: Missed Opportunities
 
 Appendix: Archival Abbreviations
 Notes
 Index