The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.
Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History is a useful reference book for high school or college libraries.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today.
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.