Fierce Green Fire The American Environmental Movement

Name: Fierce Green Fire The American Environmental Movement
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ISBN: 9781559634373

ISBN-10: 1559634375

ISBN-13: 9781559634373

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Philip Shabecoff

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In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days of the republic to the present. He offers a sweeping overview of the contemporary environmental movement and the political, economic, social and ethical forces that have shaped it. More importantly, he considers what today's environmental movement needs to do if it is to fight off the powerful forces that oppose it and succeed in its mission of protecting the American people, their habitat, and their future.Shabecoff traces the ecological transformation of North America as a result of the mass migration of Europeans to the New World,…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword to the Second Edition


Preface



The Garden and the Wilderness



Subduing Nature



The Awakening



Keepers of the House



Saving Ourselves



The Environmental Revolution



Saving Land



Saving Life



The Search for Pax Gaia



The Counterrevolution



The New People's Army



The Third Wave



Ebb Tide



Rebuilding the House


Notes


Bibliography


Index