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Title:
Crabgrass Crucible Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America.
Author:
Sellers, Christopher.
ISBN:
9781469601731
9780807869901
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Abstract:
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from s.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807869901_sellersCopies:
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