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This Green and Growing Land: Environmental Activism in American History
ISBN: 9781442237070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Benjamin Franklin's campaign to combat pollution at the Philadelphia's docks in the 1750s to the movement against climate change today, American environmentalists have sought to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society. In This Green and Growing Land, historian Kevin Armitage shows how the story of American environmentalism--part philosophy, part social movement--is in no small way a story of America itself, of the way citizens have self-organized, have thought of their communities and their government, and have used their power to protect and enrich the land....
From Benjamin Franklin's campaign to combat pollution at the Philadelphia's docks in the 1750s to the movement against climate change today, American ...
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The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic
ISBN: 9780700616732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, thousands of Americans turned to an unexpected pastime that had been theirs to take up all along: the study of nature. Armed with cameras and collecting jars, everyday citizens wandered the country's forests, prairies, and mountains to gain an appreciation of local flora and fauna and to escape the increasingly industrialized world as well. Kevin Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of the nature study movement, demonstrating its significance to American environmental thought and politics. He shows how nature study, as both a...
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, thousands of Americans turned to an unexpected pastime that had been theirs to take up all along: the study ...
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317,18 zł |