Kevin C Armitage

This Green and Growing Land

Environmental Activism in American History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this concise and engaging survey of more than 250 years of American environmental activism to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society, historian Kevin Armitage tells the story of a magnificent American achievement-and the ongoing problems that environmentalism faces today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781442237070
• ISBN-10: 1442237074
• Artikelnr.: 42808821

Autorenporträt

Dr. Kevin Connor Armitage is a professor of history at the University of Miami - Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Horns in Dock Creek Chapter 2: The Science and Nature of
Empathy Chapter 3: Progressive Publics and the Social Natural Order Chapter
4: A Green New Deal Chapter 5: A Wilderness Society Chapter 6: Damming the
Arid West Chapter 7: The Atomic Body Politic Chapter 8: Abundance in the
Age of Ecology Chapter 9: Science Denial in the Age of Global Disruption
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