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

Publication Info. Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2018.

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Edition Third edition.
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Description 1 online resource (212 entries) : 6 images ; digital files.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of American environmental thought and action -- Part II. Politicians, naturalists, and artists in the new nation, 1776-1839 -- Part III. The origins of environmental activism, 1840-1889 -- Part IV. The roots of the conservation movement, 1890-1919 -- Part V. Rethinking our relationship to nature, 1920-1959 -- Part VI. The heyday of the environmental movement, 1960-1979 -- Part VII. Confronting economic and social realities, 1980-1999 -- Appendix I: Significant dates in American environmental history -- Appendix II: Major conservation and environmental organizations -- Glossary -- Further readings -- Copyright acknowledgments.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary This unique collection of Primary Documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, climate change, and resource conservation in America from the Colonial period the present.
Form Also available in print version.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Description based on title page of print version.
Subject Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Environmental protection -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Neimark, Peninah, 1938- editor.
Mott, Peter Rhoades, editor.
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Other Form: Print version: 1682175502 9781682175507 xxxiii, 347 pages : illustrations
ISBN 9781786846747 electronic version
1682175502 print
9781682175507 print

 
    
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