Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.
This article examines water pollution and its control in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Second World War, a period during which water pollution became an interstate problem.
National metabolism of the US grew exponentially from 1790 to 2000, increasing 1600 per cent…
Environmental history in and of the American South has developed in a different direction than the field in general in the United States, which has been shaped by its origins in the history of the American West.
This article examines how riparian law governed the disposal of industrial wastes into watercourses in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The counter-hegemonic struggle for ecological democracy is one of the fastest growing social movements in contemporary society, and requires the attention of environmental historians to situate it within the broader context of the history of environmentalism.
This article examines the influence of empire forestry on the environmental movement in the United States. It particularly examines the British Indian forestry exemplar, and traces its influence on environmental thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Eugene P. Odum and Howard T. Odum were at the forefront of the ‘new ecology’ of ecosystems, in the 1950s and 1960s. They were also firmly committed to bringing both natural and human ecosystems into accord with the laws of ecoenergetics (the flow of energy through a system).