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

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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, po...

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Other Authors: Neimark, Peninah, 1938-, Mott, Peter Rhoades
Language:English
Published: Amenia, N.Y. : Grey House Pub., 2011.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Environmentalism > United States > History > Sources.
Environmental protection > United States > History > Sources.
United States > Environmental conditions.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:xli, 460 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Format: Book
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.