A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States

by Chad Montrie

Book Overview

This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven by the increased leisure and wealth of an educated middle class. Chad Montrie's telling moves the origins of environmentalism much further back...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441198687
• ISBN13: 9781441198686
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"