Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century (American Ways) - Hardcover

Rothman, Hal K.

 
9781566632881: Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century (American Ways)

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Examines factors that have shaped our national environmental consciousness, and traces the shift from the conservation ethic of the early twentieth century to the present-day concern with the quality of life.

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A concise, balanced, and readable history of the conservation movement for the last hundred-plus years. -- Katherine E. Gillen * Kliatt *

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Hal Rothman chronicles the American response to the environment in the 20th century, showing how the idea of conservation management was transformed after World War II into a program for quality of life. His cogent narrative history is punctuated throughout with accounts of crucial episodes in the growth of environmentalism-Hetch-Hetchy, the Echo Park Dam, the oil spill at Santa Barbara, Love Canal, and others. A thoughtful tracking of the American environmental sympathies during this century. -Kirkus Reviews. American Ways Series.

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ISBN 10:  156663301X ISBN 13:  9781566633017
Verlag: Ivan R. Dee, 2001
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