Jeff Crane / Michael Egan (eds.)

Natural Protest

Essays on the History of American Environmentalism
Herausgeber: Crane, Jeff; Egan, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way of life. Natural Protest is the first collection of original essays to offer a cohesive social and political examination of environmental awareness, activism, and justice throughout American history. Editors Michael Egan and Jeff Crane have selected the finest new scholarship in the field, establishing this complex and fascinating subject firmly at the forefront of American historical study. Focused and thought-provoking, Natural Protest presents a cutting-edge perspective on American environmentalism and environmental history, providing an invaluable resource for anyone concerned about the ecological fate of the world around us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415962698
• ISBN-10: 0415962692
• Artikelnr.: 25683853

Autorenporträt

Michael Egan is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the director of the Sustainable Future History Project at McMaster University. He is the author of Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism. Jeff Crane is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Sam Houston State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 "Fancy Foreshadowed a Magnificent Destiny": The Market Revolution and the Kennebec River Dam Fight
Chapter 2 Organizing Environmental Protest: Swill Milk and Social Activism in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Chapter 3 "That Shocking Calamity": Revisiting George Catlin's Environmental Politics
Chapter 4 "The Science-Spirit in a Democracy": Liberty Hyde Bailey
Nature Study
and the Democratic Impulse of Progressive Conservation
Chapter 5 The Hetch Hetchy Controversy
Chapter 6 Rethinking Reclamation: How an Alliance of Duck Hunters and Cattle Ranchers Brought Wetland Conservation to California's Central Valley Project
Chapter 7 A Twisted Road to Earth Day: Air Pollution as an Issue of Social Movements after World War II
Chapter 8 A Call to Action: Silent Spring
Public Disclosure
and the Rise of Modern Environmentalism
Chapter 9 Ball of Confusion: Public Health
African Americans
and Earth Day 1970
Chapter 10 "Save French Pete": Evolution of Wilderness Protests in Oregon
Chapter 11 Parting the Waters: The Ecumenical Task Force at Love Canal and Beyond
Chapter 12 Cancer Valley
California: Pesticides
Politics
and Childhood Disease in the Central Valley
Chapter 13 "It Seems Like We Should Be on the Same Side!": Native Americans
Environmentalists
and the Grand Canyon
Index