Natural protest : essays on the history of American environmentalism / edited by Michael Egan and Jeff Crane.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction / Michael Egan & Jeff Crane
- "Fancy foreshadowed a magnificent destiny": the market revolution and the Kennebec River Dam Fight / Jeff Crane
- Organizing environmental protest: swill milk and social activism in nineteenth-century New York City / Michael Egan
- "That shocking calamity": revisiting George Catlin's environmental politics / John Hausdoerffer
- "The science-spirit in a democracy": Liberty Hyde Bailey, nature study, and the democratic impulse of progressive conservation / Kevin C. Armitage
- The Hetch Hetchy controversy / Robert W. Richter
- Rethinking reclamation: how an alliance of duck hunters and cattle ranchers brought wetland conservation to California's Central Valley project / Philip Garone
- A twisted road to Earth Day: air pollution as an issue of social movements after World War II / Frank Uekoetter
- A call to action: Silent spring, public disclosure, and the rise of modern environmentalism / Sarah L. Thomas
- Ball of confusion: public health, African Americans, and Earth Day 1970 / Sylvia Hood Washington
- "Save French Pete": evolution of wilderness protests in Oregon / Kevin R. Marsh
- Parting the waters: the ecumenical task force at Love Canal and beyond / Elizabeth D. Blum
- Cancer valley, California: pesticides, politics, and childhood disease in the Central Valley / Adam Tompkins
- "It seems like we should be on the same side!": Native Americans, environmentalists, and the Grand Canyon / Will McArthur.