Bibliograph

The environmental debate, a documentary history, with timeline, glossary, and appendices, edited by Peninah Neimark & Peter Rhoades Mott

Type

Label

The environmental debate, a documentary history, with timeline, glossary, and appendices, edited by Peninah Neimark & Peter Rhoades Mott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-432) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The environmental debate

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

679920669

Responsibility statement

edited by Peninah Neimark & Peter Rhoades Mott

Sub title

a documentary history, with timeline, glossary, and appendices

Summary

This collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period the present. Documents include the writings of naturalists, conservationists, scientists, philosophers, lawyers, judges, politicians, sociologists, artists and poets, as well as from government reports, federal, state, and local legislation, and court cases. --from publisher description

Table Of Contents

Foundations of American environmental thought and action -- Politicians, naturalists, and artists in the new nation, 1776-1840 -- The origins of environmental activism, 1840-1889 -- The conservation movement era, 1890-1919 -- Rethinking our relationship to nature, 1920-1959 -- The heyday of the environmental movement, 1960-1979 -- Confronting economic and social realities, 1980-1999 -- Challenges for the twenty-first century

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