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

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

Language

eng

Abstract

This unique collection of Primary Documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, climate change, and resource conservation in America from the Colonial period the present

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The environmental debate

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

edited by Peninah Neimark and Peter Rhoades Mott

Sub title

a documentary history with timeline, glossary, and appendices

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of American environmental thought and action -- Part II. Politicians, naturalists, and artists in the new nation, 1776-1839 -- Part III. The origins of environmental activism, 1840-1889 -- Part IV. The roots of the conservation movement, 1890-1919 -- Part V. Rethinking our relationship to nature, 1920-1959 -- Part VI. The heyday of the environmental movement, 1960-1979 -- Part VII. Confronting economic and social realities, 1980-1999 -- Appendix I: Significant dates in American environmental history -- Appendix II: Major conservation and environmental organizations -- Glossary -- Further readings -- Copyright acknowledgments

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