Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who helped and those who hindered the movement. It provides a concise overview of the American environmental movement and is essential reading for both students or scholars.
Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who helped and those who hindered the movement. It provides a concise overview of the American environmental movement and is essential reading for both students or scholars.
Ellen Griffith Spears is an associate professor in the interdisciplinary New College and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. She is author of the award-winning Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town (2014).
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Table of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: A Field of Movements Chapter 1: Antecedents: A Wide Arc (prior to1945) Chapter 2: The Great Acceleration and the Rise of Environmentalism (1945-1964) Chapter 3: Expanding the Field of Movements: From the Wilderness Act to Superfund (1964-1980) Chapter 4: Conservative Countermovement and the Rise of Environmental Justice (1980-1990) Chapter 5: Globalizing Environmentalism (1990-2001) Chapter 6: Intersectional Activism and Climate Justice (2001-2018) Chapter 7: Hope in a Strange Season Bibliography Index
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Field of Movements
Chapter 1: Antecedents: A Wide Arc (prior to1945)
Chapter 2: The Great Acceleration and the Rise of Environmentalism (1945-1964)
Chapter 3: Expanding the Field of Movements: From the Wilderness Act to Superfund (1964-1980)
Chapter 4: Conservative Countermovement and the Rise of Environmental Justice (1980-1990)
Table of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: A Field of Movements Chapter 1: Antecedents: A Wide Arc (prior to1945) Chapter 2: The Great Acceleration and the Rise of Environmentalism (1945-1964) Chapter 3: Expanding the Field of Movements: From the Wilderness Act to Superfund (1964-1980) Chapter 4: Conservative Countermovement and the Rise of Environmental Justice (1980-1990) Chapter 5: Globalizing Environmentalism (1990-2001) Chapter 6: Intersectional Activism and Climate Justice (2001-2018) Chapter 7: Hope in a Strange Season Bibliography Index
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Field of Movements
Chapter 1: Antecedents: A Wide Arc (prior to1945)
Chapter 2: The Great Acceleration and the Rise of Environmentalism (1945-1964)
Chapter 3: Expanding the Field of Movements: From the Wilderness Act to Superfund (1964-1980)
Chapter 4: Conservative Countermovement and the Rise of Environmental Justice (1980-1990)
