Saving the Planet The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century

Name: Saving the Planet The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9781566633017

ISBN-10: 156663301X

ISBN-13: 9781566633017

Edition: 2000

Authors: Hal K. Rothman

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Hal Rothman chronicles the American response to the environment in the 20th century, showing how the idea of conservation management was transformed after World War II into a program for quality of life. His cogent narrative history is punctuated throughout with accounts of crucial episodes in the growth of environmentalism--Hetch-Hetchy, the Echo Park Dam, the oil spill at Santa Barbara, Love Canal, and others. A thoughtful tracking of the American environmental sympathies during this century. --Kirkus Reviews. American Ways Series.

Book details

List price: $14.90
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 3/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.12" wide x 8.20" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.572



Introduction: The Twentieth Century and Its many Visions


From conservation to environmentalism--continuities and contradictions



Setting the Stage: The Diverse Currents of the 1890s


Industrialization and reform


John Muir, the Sierra Club, and the preservation of nature


Federal legislation



Progressive Conservation


Theodore Roosevelt and the new approach to conservation


Addressing water pollution


Gifford Pinchot and scientific forestry


Implementing Progressive conservation


The Hetch-Hetchy controversy



Conservation as Business and Labor Policy


Jazz Age values


Water in the West


New Deal projects


Effects of the Great Depression



The Democratization of Conservation


Post-World War II social changes


The problems of growth


Conservation revived


The Echo Park Dam battle



The Rise of Aesthetic Environmentalism


The mood of the 1960s


Calls to action


Perils of atomic testing


Rachel Carson's Silent Spring


Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb


Environmentalism as a new center of consensus


The Santa Barbara oil spill



The Limits of Quality of Life


The dangerous bargain between industry and its workers


A legal revolution


The federal response to environmental concerns


Environmental Impact Statements


The Alaska Pipeline


Earth Day


Toxic wastes



Backlash: Full Stomachs and Empty Pockets


Impact of the oil crisis and the Vietnam War


The Sagebrush Rebellion


James Watt


Swelling ranks of environmental groups


Reagan administration policies


The Wise Use movement



A New Environmentalism


Three Mile Island


Hazardous waste and Love Canal


New grassroots activism


Dumping in Nevada


A Note on Sources


Index