Bibliograph

This green and growing land, American environmentalism from Benjamin Franklin to the age of climate destruction, By Kevin C. Armitage

Type

Label

This green and growing land, American environmentalism from Benjamin Franklin to the age of climate destruction, By Kevin C. Armitage

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This green and growing land

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

By Kevin C. Armitage

Series statement

The American ways series

Sub title

American environmentalism from Benjamin Franklin to the age of climate destruction

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

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