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A people's history of environmentalism in the United States / Chad Montrie.

This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Montrie, Chad
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub., 2011.
Subjects:
Environmental justice > United States.
Human ecology > United States > History.
Landscape changes > United States > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > United States > History.
United States > Environmental conditions.
Ecology.
Environmental justice.
Human ecology.
Landscape changes.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Puritan to Yankee Redux: Farming, Fishing, and Our Very Own Dark, Satanic Mills
  • Why "Game Wardens" Carry Guns and Interpretive Rangers Dress like Soldiers: Class Conflict in Forests and Parks
  • Missionaries Find the Urban Jungle: Sanitation and Worker Health and Safety
  • Green Relief and Recovery: By Which Working People and Nature Get a New Deal
  • A Popular Crusade: Organized Labor Takes the Lead against Pollution
  • To Stir Up Dissent and Create Turmoil: Inventing Environmental Justice.

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