Ellen Spears

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who helped and those who hindered the movement. It provides a concise overview of the American environmental movement and is essential reading for both students or scholars.

Produktdetails

• American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780415529587
• ISBN-10: 0415529581
• Artikelnr.: 57146077

Autorenporträt

Ellen Griffith Spears is an associate professor in the interdisciplinary New College and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. She is author of the award-winning Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Field of Movements
Chapter 1: Antecedents: A Wide Arc (prior to1945)
Chapter 2: The Great Acceleration and the Rise of Environmentalism
(1945-1964)
Chapter 3: Expanding the Field of Movements: From the Wilderness Act to
Superfund (1964-1980)
Chapter 4: Conservative Countermovement and the Rise of Environmental
Justice (1980-1990)
Chapter 5: Globalizing Environmentalism (1990-2001)
Chapter 6: Intersectional Activism and Climate Justice (2001-2018)
Chapter 7: Hope in a Strange Season
Bibliography
Index