Mark Stoll (Associate Professor of History and Director of Environm

Inherit the Holy Mountain

Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780190230869
• ISBN-10: 019023086X
• Artikelnr.: 47864398

Autorenporträt

Mark Stoll is Associate Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies at Texas Tech University.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Calvinism and Nature: American Foundations
2. Origins of Conservation in the Puritan Landscape
3. Building the Moral Society: Farms, Forests, and Parks
4. Nature, Parks, and Emersonian Modernism
5. Progressive Presbyterian Conservation
6. Presbyterians and the Environmental Movement
7. Nature and New England's Outsiders
8. A New Era
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Index