Saving the Planet by Hal K Rothman

Saving the Planet by Hal K Rothman

Hal Rothman chronicles the American response to the environment in the 20th century, showing how the idea of conservation management was transformed after World War II into a program for quality of life. His cogent narrative history is punctuated throughout with accounts of crucial episodes in the growth of environmentalism-Hetch-Hetchy, the Echo Park Dam, the oil spill at Santa Barbara, Love Canal, and others. A thoughtful tracking of the American environmental sympathies during this century. -Kirkus Reviews. American Ways Series.

A concise, balanced, and readable history of the conservation movement for the last hundred-plus years-- Katherine E. Gillen * Kliatt *

Hal K. Rothman is editor of the Environmental History Review and teaches history and public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His book Devil’s Bargains, about tourism in the twentieth-century American West, received the 1999 Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He has also written The Greening of a Nation?, “I’ll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again,” On Rims and Ridges, and Preserving Different Pasts.

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ISBN 13	9781566633017
ISBN 10	156663301X
Title	Saving the Planet
Author	Hal K Rothman
Series	American Ways
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ivan R Dee, Inc
Year published	2001-03-13
Number of pages	224
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