The fate of the environment was one of the most important issues of the twentieth century and remains a vital problem today, dominating public politics and private interest across the globe and in practice. This is the essential introduction to the debates, the movements, the successes and failures of environmentalism.
The fate of the environment was one of the most important issues of the twentieth century and remains a vital problem today, dominating public politics and private interest across the globe and in practice. This is the essential introduction to the debates, the movements, the successes and failures of environmentalism.
David Peterson del Mar grew up in a very rural area as the son of a commercial fisherman and worked as a labourer for a sawmill. Over the past twelve years he has taught environmental history in Canada and the United States and has published four books on social history, including the award winning What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence against Wives (1996).
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Introduction. 1. Domesticating the Wild. 2. Industrialization and Nature Loving. 3. The Friendly Wild of Post-War Affluence. 4. Nature and Counterculture. 5. Breakthrough. 6. Radical Departures. 7. Thwarted and Splintered. 8. Extreme Nature Loving