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by: Robert L. Dorman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.720922
EAN: 9780807846995
ISBN: 0807846996
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: April 06, 1998
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Sales Rank: 1448138
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation—George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell—are explored in A Word for Nature. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates, who witnessed firsthand the impact of economic expansion and industrial revolution on fragile landscapes from the forests of New England to the mountains of the West.
By examining the nineteenth-century world in which the four men lived—its society, economy, politics, and culture—Dorman sheds light on the roots of American environmentalism. He provides an overview of the early decades of both resource conservation and wilderness preservation, discussing how Marsh, Thoreau, Muir, and Powell helped define the issues that began changing the nation's attitudes toward its environment by the early twentieth century. Dorman's readings of works including Marsh's Man and Nature, Thoreau's The Maine Woods, Muir's The Mountains of California, and Powell's Report on the Lands of the Arid Region reveal their authors' influence on environmental thought and politics even up to the present day.
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Rating: - Four environmentalists, before the term was invented
Dorman explores the origins of American conservation and environmentalism by studying four key men of the nineteenth century -- George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882), Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), John Muir (1838-1914), and John Wesley Powell (1834-1902). Thoreau and Muir appear often in works of this kind, and Powell is occasionally added and is best known for his trip down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon. But what of Marsh? This Vermont lawyer, legislator, and industrialist published ... Read More
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