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by Philip Shabecoff

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In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days of the republic to the present. He offers a sweeping overview of the contemporary environmental movement and the political, economic, social and ethical forces that have shaped it. More importantly, he considers what today's environmental movement needs to do if it is to fight off the powerful forces that oppose it and succeed in its mission of protecting the American people, their habitat, and their future. Shabecoff traces the ecological transformation of North America as a result of the mass migration of Europeans to the New World, showing how the environmental impulse slowly formed among a growing number of Americans until, by the last third of the 20th Century, environmentalism emerged as a major social and cultural movement. The efforts of key environmental figures -- among them Henry David Thoreau, George Perkins Marsh, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, David Brower, Barry Commoner, and Rachel Carson -- are examined. So, too, are the activities of non-governmental environmental groups as wel

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  • Title A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement
  • Author Philip Shabecoff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition REV
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Island Press, Washington
  • Publication date 2003-10
  • ISBN 9781559634373 / 1559634375
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Environmental Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Environmental policy - United States -, Environmentalism - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003011120
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.720
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