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Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
Exhibition chapter
Introducing Earth First! | Radical Environmentalism’s Print History
Bron Taylor introduces Earth First!, the best known of the so-called “radical environmental” groups, founded in 1980 in the southwestern United States.
Exhibition chapter
The Second Decade (1990-2000) | Radical Environmentalism’s Print History
Bron Taylor provides insight into the Earth First! movement, through the second decade of publication of its journal (1990 to 2000), as well as offshoot publications such as Live Wild or Die!, ALARM, and Wild Earth.
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The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
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"Ecology, Epidemics and Empires: Environmental Change and the Geopolitics of Tropical America, 1600–1825"
After yellow fever was firmly ensconced via an ecological reconfiguration connected to sugar (c. 1640–90) it underpinned a military and political status quo, keeping Spanish America Spanish. After 1780, and particularly in the Haitian revolution, yellow fever undermined that status quo by assisting independence movements in the American tropics.
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The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934
Excerpt from The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934.
Perspectives Article
A Letter to James Lovelock
Sherilyn MacGregor writes to James Lovelock in gratitude, arguing that his provocative opinions may inspire environmental action by encouraging people to think critically.
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Bailes, Kendall E., ed., Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective
This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.
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"'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' in Environmental History"
This paper examines the reception of Marsh’s ideas in New Zealand in the 1870s along with the ideas of the largely-forgotten Titus Smith about human impacts upon the vegetation of Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century, prompting reflection upon the relevance of tales of environmental understanding from two colonial realms for the practice of environmental history in the twenty-first century.