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First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement

by: Kline, Benjamin

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement

by: Kline, Benjamin

ISBN 13:
9780742558533
ISBN 10:
0742558533
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/30/2007
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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First Along the River is the premier text that introduces students to the U.S. environmental movement. Concise, accessible, and informative, this third edition has been updated to include a new chapter addressing environmental issues in the post 9/11 world, policy shifts under the Bush administration, climate change, and the future of environmental movements.

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Philosophical Foundations	p. 3
Biblical Justification for Dominating Nature	p. 3
Seeking New Land	p. 5
Rational Nature of the World	p. 8
Social and Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century	p. 10
Conclusion	p. 12
The 1400s through the 1700s: Inhabiting a New Land	p. 13
Native Americans as Prototypical Environmentalists	p. 14
Early Colonial Environmental Attitudes	p. 17
Conclusion	p. 21
The Early 1800s: Destroying the Frontier	p. 23
Manifest Destiny	p. 24
Domesticating the Wilderness	p. 26
Final Conquest of the West	p. 29
Renewed Interest in Nature	p. 31
Conclusion	p. 35
The Late 1880s: Building an Industrial Nation	p. 37
Population Growth and Consumerism	p. 37
Devastating the Land	p. 40
Overconsumption of Natural Resources	p. 42
Voices for Nature	p. 46
Conclusion	p. 49
The 1900s through the 1930s: Beginnings of the Conservation Movement	p. 51
Conversation during the Progressive Era	p. 52
Environmental Decay during the Roaring Twenties	p. 60
Conversation Policies under Roosevelt's New Deal	p. 64
Conclusion	p. 67
The 1940s through the 1960s: Prelude to the Green Decade	p. 70
Environmental Costs of Scientific Progress in the 1940s	p. 70
The Conservative 1950s	p. 72
Emerging Voices in the 1960s	p. 73
The Environmental Movement Begins to Mobilize	p. 77
Conclusion	p. 82
The 1970s: The Conservation Movement Matures	p. 84
Mainstream and Alternative Environmental Groups	p. 84
New Environmental Legislation	p. 92
Jimmy Carter and the Envirocrats	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 99
The 1980s: A Conservative Backlash	p. 101
Ronald Reagan's Environmental Deregulation	p. 101
George Bush as the Environmental President	p. 104
Employment versus the Environment	p. 107
Environmental Groups Actions and Reactions	p. 109
International Environmental Concern	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 114
The Early 1990s: Government Retrenchment and Public Apathy	p. 116
Environmental Optimism under Bill Clinton	p. 116
A Growing Countermovement	p. 118
A Green Revival	p. 120
A Conservative Resurgence	p. 125
Conclusion	p. 131
The Late 1990s: The Institutionalization of the Environmental Movement	p. 133
Clinton's Moderate Environmental Approach	p. 133
Growing Public Concern	p. 138
New Activism	p. 141
Congressional Action and Inaction	p. 144
The Global Future of the Environmental Movement	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 152
The Environmental Movement in the Post 9/11 World	p. 155
The Presidential Election of 2000	p. 155
The Post 9/11 World	p. 159
Bush and Changing Regulations	p. 163
The Debate and the Gamble	p. 164
Conclusion	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 169
Glossary	p. 174
Bibliography and Suggested Readings	p. 188
Index	p. 193
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First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement

9780742558533

0742558533

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