Nature and the environment in twentieth-century American life
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Published: |
Greenwood Press,
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Publisher Address: | Westport, Conn. |
Publication Dates: | 2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series |
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Carrier Form: | xviii, 237 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
0313332002 9780313332005 |
Index Number: | Q988 |
CLC: |
Q988 C912.6-097.12 |
Call Number: | C912.6-097.12/B627 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index. Resource expansion -- The drive for parks -- Pollution and city life -- Resource management and conservation -- Expansive possibilities : life with the bomb -- Grassroots activism and environmental concern -- Creating a political framework for environmental action -- Green culture -- Going global -- Environmental backlash and growing energy needs -- Sifting through the debris of hurricane Katrina. |