Natural Protest Essays on the History of American Environmentalism

Name: Natural Protest Essays on the History of American Environmentalism
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ISBN: 9780415962698

ISBN-10: 0415962692

ISBN-13: 9780415962698

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jeff Crane, Michael Egan

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List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.02" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Michael Egan is Associate Professor of History at McMaster University and Director of the Sustainable Future History Project.



List of figures


Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction




"Fancy Foreshadowed a Magnificant Destiny": The Market Revolution and the Kennebec River Dam Fight




Organizing Environmental Protest: Swill Milk and Social Activism in Nineteenth-Century New York City




"That Shocking Calamity": Revisiting George Catlin's Environmental Politics




"The Science-Spirit in a Democracy": Liberty Hyde Bailey, Nature Study, and the Democratic Impulse of Progressive Conservation




The Hetch Hetchy Controversy




Rethinking Reclamation: How an Alliance of Duck Hunters and Cattle Ranchers Brought Wetland Conservation to California's Central Valley Project




A Twisted Road to Earth Day: Air Pollution as an Issue of Social Movements after World War II




A Call to Action: Silent Spring, Public Disclosure, and the Rise of Modern Environmentalism




Ball of Confusion: Public Health, African Americans, and Earth Day 1970




"Save French Pete": Evolution of Wilderness Protests in Oregon




Parting the Waters: The Ecumenical Task Force at Love Canal and Beyond




Cancer Valley, California: Pesticides, Politics, and Childhood Disease in the Central Valley




"It Seems Like We Should Be on the Same Side!": Native Americans, Environmentalists, and the Grand Canyon



Index