Bibliograph

This green and growing land, environmental activism in American history, Kevin C. Armitage

Type

Label

This green and growing land, environmental activism in American history, Kevin C. Armitage

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This green and growing land

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1038025573

Responsibility statement

Kevin C. Armitage

Series statement

The American ways series

Sub title

environmental activism in American history

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The horns in Dock Creek -- The science and nature of empathy -- A wilderness society -- Progressive publics and the social natural order -- A green new deal -- Damming the arid West -- The atomic body politic -- Abundance in the age of ecology -- Science denial in the age of global disruption

Classification