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The Environmental Moment: 1968-1972 (Out of print)

PUBLISHER University of Washington Press (07/20/2015)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

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The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces from the Whole Earth Catalog and articles from the Village Voice to lectures, posters, and government documents, the collection describes the period through the perspective of a diversity of participants, including activists, politicians, scientists, and average citizens. Included are the words of Rachel Carson, but also the National Review, Howard Zahniser on wilderness, Nathan Hare on the Black underclass. The chronological arrangement reveals the coincidence of a multitude of issues that rushed into public consciousness during a critical time in American history.

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ISBN-13: 9780295997032
ISBN-10: 0295997036
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 160
Carton Quantity: 30
Product Dimensions: 6.00 x 0.56 x 9.00 inches
Weight: 0.93 pound(s)
Country of Origin: US
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Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Nature | American Government - National
Nature | United States - 20th Century
Dewey Decimal: 304.209
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The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces from the Whole Earth Catalog and articles from the Village Voice to lectures, posters, and government documents, the collection describes the period through the perspective of a diversity of participants, including activists, politicians, scientists, and average citizens. Included are the words of Rachel Carson, but also the National Review, Howard Zahniser on wilderness, Nathan Hare on the Black underclass. The chronological arrangement reveals the coincidence of a multitude of issues that rushed into public consciousness during a critical time in American history.

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Editor: Stradling, David
David Stradling is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State and coauthor of Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland, both from Cornell. He is also the author of Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, and Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881 1951.
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Foreword by: Cronon, William
William Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book "Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West" won the Bancroft Prize in 1992.
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