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Title The environmental debate : a documentary history, with timeline, glossary, and appendices / edited by Peninah Neimark & Peter Rhoades Mott.

Publication Info. Amenia, N.Y. : Grey House Pub., 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Reference Material  REF 363.7 ENV    In-Library Use Only
Edition Second edition.
Description xli, 460 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-432) and index.
Contents Foundations of American environmental thought and action -- Politicians, naturalists, and artists in the new nation, 1776-1840 -- The origins of environmental activism, 1840-1889 -- The conservation movement era, 1890-1919 -- Rethinking our relationship to nature, 1920-1959 -- The heyday of the environmental movement, 1960-1979 -- Confronting economic and social realities, 1980-1999 -- Challenges for the twenty-first century.
Summary This collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period the present. Documents include the writings of naturalists, conservationists, scientists, philosophers, lawyers, judges, politicians, sociologists, artists and poets, as well as from government reports, federal, state, and local legislation, and court cases. --from publisher description
Subject Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Environmental protection -- United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
Added Author Neimark, Peninah, 1938-
Mott, Peter Rhoades.
Other Form: Online version: Environmental debate. 2nd ed. Amenia, N.Y. : Grey House Pub., 2011 (OCoLC)747306210
ISBN 9781592376766
1592376762
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