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First along the river : a brief history of the U.S. environmental movement /

Title:
First along the river : a brief history of the U.S. environmental movement /
Author:
Kline, Benjamin, 1955-
Published:
Lanham, Md. : c2011.
Format:
Book
Institution:
MassArt, Emmanuel College
Contents:
1. Philosophical foundations -- Biblical justification for dominating nature -- Seeking new land -- Rational nature of the world -- Social and political thought in the eighteenth century -- 2. The 1400s through the 1700s : inhabiting a new land -- Native Americans as prototypical environmentalists -- Early colonial environmental attitudes -- 3. The early 1800s : destroying the frontier -- Manifest destiny -- Domesticating the wilderness -- Final conquest of the West -- Renewed interest in nature -- 4. The late 1880s : building an industrial nation -- Population growth and consumerism -- Devastating the land -- Overconsumption of natural resources -- Voices for nature -- 5. The 1900s and the 1930s : beginnings of the conservation movement -- Conservation during the Progressive Era -- Environmental decay during the Roaring Twenties -- Conservation policies under Roosevelt's New Deal -- 6. The 1940s through the 1960s : prelude to the green decade -- Environmental costs of scientific progress in the 1940s -- The conservative 1950s -- Emerging voices in the 1960s -- The environmental movement begins to mobilize -- 7. The 1970s : the conservation movement matures -- Mainstream and alternative environmental groups -- New environmental legislation -- Jimmy Carter and the envirocrats -- 8. The 1980s : a conservative backlash -- Ronald Reagan's environmental deregulation -- George Bush as the environmental president -- Employment versus the environment -- Environmental group's actions and reactions -- International environmental concern -- 9. The early 1990s : government retrenchment and public apathy -- Environmental optimism under Bill Clinton -- A growing countermovement -- A green revival -- A conservative resurgence -- 10. The late 1990s : the institutionalization of the environmental movement -- Clinton's moderate environmental approach -- Growing public concern -- New activism -- Congressional action and inaction -- The global future of the environmental movement -- 11. The environmental movement in the post 9/11 world : 2000-2010 -- George W. Bush -- Bush and changing regulations -- The debate and the gamble -- Barack Obama : the presidency of 'change' -- The environment and the presidential election of 2008 -- Obama and the environment -- Copenhagen -- Pros and cons -- NIMBYism -- The BP oil spill disaster.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
GE195 .K578 2011 – Available
MassArt Main
GE195 .K578 2011 – Available