This green and growing land : environmental activism in American history / Kevin C. Armitage.

"In This Green and Growing Land: Environmental Activism in American History, historian Kevin C. Armitage shows how the story of American environmentalism -- part philosophy, part social movement -- is in no small way a story of America itself, the way citizens have self-organized, how they have thou...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American ways series.
Main Author: Armitage, Kevin C. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Series:American ways series.
Subjects:
Environmentalism > United States > History.
Non-governmental organizations > Political activity.
Environmentalism.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Chapter 1: The horns in Dock Creek
  • Chapter 2: The science and nature of empathy
  • Chapter 3: A wilderness society
  • Chapter 4: Progressive publics and the social natural order
  • Chapter 5: A green New Deal
  • Chapter 6: Damming the arid West
  • Chapter 7: The atomic body politic
  • Chapter 8: Abundance in the age of ecology
  • Chapter 9: Science denial in the age of global disruption.