The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection, Paperback - Dorceta E. Taylor

Reducere. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-ninet...

Reducere. In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, ...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

"Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who he...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luke W. ColeAuthor: Sheila R. FosterWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the pheno...

Reducere. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

Reducere. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical...

Reducere. Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical opt...

Reducere. Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders o...

Reducere. Californication: The Rise of the American Technocracy is a comprehensive analysis of the motivations and consequences of the burdensome regulatory ...

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in...

DescriptionThis feminist classic (first published in 1982) presents a chorus of voices exploring their authentic spirituality. The essays are activ...

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

Doing Respectful Research is situated within a critical, feminist postmodern framework and addresses the complexities of conducting respectful qual...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam D. ShprintzenVegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years o...

A sympathetic yet honest and nonjudgmental account that goes behind the palace doors and into the private lives of these iconic public figures Thei...

Reducere. Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightes...

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and se...

The story of how the dollar rose to global dominance in the twentieth century - and an assessment of what the future holds for the world's most imp...

This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

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Reducere. LUCKY... OR BLESSED? The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: At moments of crisis, when the odds against success seem overwhe...

Reducere. Recent events in the US--high unemployment, record federal deficits, and unprecedented financial distress--have raised serious doubts about the fut...

Reducere. AMERICAN HAUNTINGS THE RISE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN GHOST HUNTER BY TROY TAYLORDo you believe in ghosts? You're not alone. ...

Reducere. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Tracy E. PerkinsIllustration(s): 24 b-w photographs 1 map 1 tableNumber of pages: 302Publicatio...

This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists, campaigners, academics, and lawyers, wh...

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As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts 'derby grrrls' are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and...

This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrat...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressIllustration(s): 3 illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Collection: Critical Green EngagementsPublication date: 2...

Reducere. The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American...

DescriptionIn 1947, 4, 000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister, California. As images of dissolute bikers graced the pages of newspapers an...

Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

Reducere. In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism--the pairing of short-term, unskilled...

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Joh...

Reducere. From the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few g...

Reducere. In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However...

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Reducere. A bold call for the "insane" to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation - Explains how many of those diagn...

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