Author: Tryphena Ely WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Tryphena Ely White's Journal
Author: Tryphena Ely WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States
Author: Chad MontriePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441175458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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 in time and attributes the growth of environmental awareness to working people and their families. From the antebellum era to the end of the twentieth century, ordinary Americans have been at the forefront of organizing to save themselves and their communities from environmental harm. This interpretation is nothing short of a substantial recasting of the past, giving a more accurate picture of what happened, when, and why at the beginnings of the environmental movement.
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: A Day at a Time
Author: Margo CulleyPublisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780935312515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
Report of the Librarian of the State Library
Author: Massachusetts State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2122
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Making a Living
Author: Chad MontriePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile "mill girls" in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in the Kansas and Nebraska grasslands, native-born coal miners in southern Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit, and Mexican and Mexican American farm workers in southern California. Montrie shows how increasingly organized and mechanized production drove a wedge between workers and nature--and how workers fought back. Workers' resistance not only addressed wages and conditions, he argues, but also planted the seeds of environmental reform and environmental justice activism. Workers played a critical role in raising popular consciousness, pioneering strategies for enacting environmental regulatory policy, and initiating militant local protest. Filled with poignant and illuminating vignettes, Making a Living provides new insights into the intersection of the labor movement and environmentalism in America.
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description