U S Environmentalism Since 1945

Author : Steven Stoll
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1403971528

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U.S. Environmentalism since 1945 by Steven Stoll Pdf

By the end of World War II, Americans’ relationship with nature had changed dramatically. New consumption patterns drove an industrial economy that damaged the earth in new ways, and the atomic age heightened awareness of the earth’s fragility. Environmental historian Steven Stoll identifies 1945 as the birth of American environmentalism—the point when conservation and nature advocacy fused with activism to form a political movement. In this thematically organized collection of primary sources, Stoll traces the development of the environmental movement and identifies its central issues and ideologies, including the politics of preservation, population growth, biological interdependence, ecodefense, climate change, ethical consumption, and environmental justice. Stoll’s insightful introduction provides students with a solid overview of environmentalism’s origins and contextualizes the topics raised by the documents. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137112934

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U.S. Environmentalism since 1945 by NA NA Pdf

By the end of World War II, Americans relationship with nature had changed dramatically. New consumption patterns drove an industrial economy that damaged the earth in new ways, and the atomic age heightened awareness of the earth s fragility. Environmental historian Steven Stoll identifies 1945 as the birth of American environmentalism - the point when conservation and nature advocacy fused with activism to form a political movement. In this thematically organized collection of primary sources, Stoll traces the development of the environmental movement and identifies its central issues and ideologies, including the politics of preservation, population growth, biological interdependence, ecodefense, climate change, ethical consumption, and environmental justice. Stoll s insightful introduction provides students with a solid overview of environmentalism s origins and contextualizes the topics raised by the documents. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Author : Samuel P. Hays
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0822972247

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A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945 by Samuel P. Hays Pdf

An overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present—with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy.

Author : Ellen Spears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136175299

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Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 by Ellen Spears Pdf

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of those who created the movement and those who tried to thwart them. Concentrating on the decades since World War II, environmental historian Ellen Griffith Spears explores environmentalism as a "field of movements" rooted in broader social justice activism. Noting major legislative accomplishments, strengths, and contributions, as well as the divisions within the ranks, the book reveals how new scientific developments, the nuclear threat, and pollution, as well as changes in urban living spurred activism among diverse populations. The book outlines the key precursors, events, participants, and strategies of the environmental movement, and contextualizes the story in the dramatic trajectory of U.S. history after World War II. The result is a synthesis of American environmental politics that one reader called both "ambitious in its scope and concise in its presentation." This book provides a succinct overview of the American environmental movement and is the perfect introduction for students or scholars seeking to understand one of the largest social movements of the twentieth century up through the robust climate movement of today.

Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826455727

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A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States by Chad Montrie Pdf

This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven by the increased leisure and wealth of an educated middle class. Chad Montrie's telling moves the origins of environmentalism much further back in time and attributes the growth of environmental awareness to working people and their families. From the antebellum era to the end of the twentieth century, ordinary Americans have been at the forefront of organizing to save themselves and their communities from environmental harm. This interpretation is nothing short of a substantial recasting of the past, giving a more accurate picture of what happened, when, and why at the beginnings of the environmental movement.

Author : Hal Rothman
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0613921909

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Greening Of A Nation by Hal Rothman Pdf

The first balanced look at the evolution and significance of environmentalism, The Greening of a Nation? demonstrates the many attitudes Americans have held toward nature as well as the social and cultural concerns of the post-1945 era. Told in an engaging and enlightening style, the text synthesizes the many facets of environmentalism in an even-handed manner, showing both the triumphs and shortcomings of the concept.

Author : Gary Haq,Alistair Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136636554

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Environmentalism Since 1945 by Gary Haq,Alistair Paul Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the greening of politics, science, economics and culture in the post-war period. It covers issues such as: the birth of the environmental movement, development of global environmental governance, climate science and the rise of climate scepticism, the Green New Deal and the call for prosperity without growth, greening of mainstream culture and efforts to change attitudes, and behaviour challenges the environmental movement will have to address to continue to be a force change. The author provides a historical perspective for each topic, anchoring them to real events, influential ideas, and prominent figures.

Author : Hal Rothman
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015040546759

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The Greening of a Nation? by Hal Rothman Pdf

The first balanced look at the evolution and significance of environmentalism, THE GREENING OF A NATION demonstrates the many attitudes Americans have held toward nature, as well as how these attitudes have created the social and cultural concerns of the post-1945 era. The text synthesizes the many facets of environmentalism in an even-handed manner, showing both the triumphs and shortcomings of the concept.

Author : Astrid Mignon Kirchhof,John R. McNeill
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986485

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Nature and the Iron Curtain by Astrid Mignon Kirchhof,John R. McNeill Pdf

In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the authors contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern environmentalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book explores similarities and differences among several nations with different economies and political systems, and highlights connections between environmental movements in Eastern and Western Europe.

Author : Benjamin Kline
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538159347

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First Along the River by Benjamin Kline Pdf

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights important people and events, places critical concepts in context, and shows the impact of government, industry, and population on the American landscape. Comprehensive yet brief, First Along the River discusses the religious and philosophical beliefs that shaped Americans' relationship to the environment, traces the origins and development of government regulations that impact Americans' use of natural resources, and shows why popular environmental groups were founded and how they changed over time. The fifth edition includes up-to-date coverage of the environmental movement and developments including an overview of environmental issues since 2012, environmental policies impacted by the Trump administration, the coronavirus pandemic, and the switch back to a more global perspective under the Biden administration.

Author : J. R. McNeill,Peter Engelke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674545038

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The Great Acceleration by J. R. McNeill,Peter Engelke Pdf

The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age—the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.

Author : Steven Stoll,Nancy MacLean,Daniel Horowitz,Reed Ueda
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 145760132X

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U.s. Environmentalism Since 1945 + American Women's Movement + Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s + Postwar Immigrant America by Steven Stoll,Nancy MacLean,Daniel Horowitz,Reed Ueda Pdf

Author : David Andrew Biggs
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801544

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Quagmire by David Andrew Biggs Pdf

Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam’s turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history. Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s, colonial reclamation schemes and pacification efforts centered on the development of a dense network of new canals to open land for agriculture. These projects helped precipitate economic and environmental crises in the 1930s, and subsequent struggles after 1945 led to the balkanization of the delta into a patchwork of regions controlled by the Viet Minh, paramilitary religious sects, and the struggling Franco-Vietnamese government. After 1954, new settlements were built with American funds and equipment in a crash program intended to solve continuing economic and environmental problems. Finally, the American military collapse in Vietnam is revealed as not simply a failure of policy makers but also a failure to understand the historical, political, and environmental complexity of the spaces American troops attempted to occupy and control. By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape - channelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestation - have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1-UItZqsk

Author : Riley E. Dunlap,Angela G. Mertig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0844817309

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American Environmentalism by Riley E. Dunlap,Angela G. Mertig Pdf

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : United States
ISBN : 0495912425

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Major Problems in American Environmental History by Carolyn Merchant Pdf

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY presents major themes and controversial issues from native American times to the present, drawn from compelling, readable sources that draw readers into the process of developing their own perspectives on American environmental history. This text presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow readers to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Each chapter includes introductions, source notes, and suggested readings.