American Environmentalism : Readings in Conservation History

by Nash, Roderick Frazier

• ISBN13: 9780070460591
• ISBN10: 0070460590
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-08-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This collection of readings contains comprehensive primary and secondary works in the field of conservation, emphasizes the history of ideas and attitudes about conservation, and gives a chronology of important conservation events in U.S. history from the beginning to the present. Edited by a national leader in the fields of conservation, environmental management, and education, this well-organized anthology is appropriate for courses dealing with American environmental studies and ecology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
An American Environmental Chronology	xi
The Potential of Environmental History	1	(8)
PART ONE THE CONSERVATION IMPULSE, BEGINNINGS--1878	9	(60)
Native Americans Define the Natural Community	13	(4)
Black Elk
The Human Factor in Environmental Change	17	(8)
William Cronon
Frontiersmen and the American Environment	25	(6)
Wilbur Jacobs
An Artist Proposes a National Park	31	(5)
George Catlin
The Value of Wildness	36	(4)
Henry David Thoreau
Human Responsibility for the Land	40	(5)
George Perkins Marsh
The Value and Care of Parks	45	(7)
Frederick Law Olmsted
The Sportsman Factor in Early Conservation	52	(7)
John F. Reiger
The Beginnings of Federal Concern	59	(4)
Carl Schurz
The Reclamation Idea	63	(6)
John Wesley Powell
PART TWO THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATION CRUSADE, 1901--1910	69	(44)
The Birth of ``Conservation''	73	(7)
Gifford Pinchot
The Conservation Mentality	80	(4)
WJ McGee
Publicizing Conservation at the White House	84	(6)
Theodore Roosevelt
Aesthetics and Conservation	90	(4)
Robert Underwood Johnson
A Voice for Wilderness	94	(4)
John Muir
Conservation as Democracy	98	(4)
J. Leonard Bates
Conservation as Efficiency	102	(3)
Samuel P. Hays
Conservation as Anxiety	105	(8)
Roderick Frazier Nash
PART THREE CONSERVING RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, 1921--1965	113	(74)
Conservation in the 1920s	117	(9)
Donald C. Swain
The Tennessee Valley Authority	126	(8)
David Lilienthal
Soil	134	(6)
Hugh Hammond Bennett
The Civilian Conservation Corps	140	(4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert Fechner
From Conservation to Environmentalism	144	(9)
Samuel P. Hays
The Planned Landscape	153	(7)
Benton MacKaye
Wilderness	160	(6)
Robert Marshall
The Global Perspective	166	(5)
William Vogt
A Land Ethic	171	(4)
Aldo Leopold
The Meaning of Wilderness for American Civilization	175	(6)
Wallace Stegner
Beautification	181	(6)
Lyndon B. Johnson
PART FOUR THE GOSPEL OF ECOLOGY, 1962--1972	187	(68)
Pesticides	191	(4)
Rachel Carson
Pollution	195	(7)
President's Science Advisory Committee (1965)
Overpopulation	202	(4)
Paul Ehrlich
Fundamental Causes of the Environmental Crisis	206	(9)
Barry Commoner
The State of the Environment	215	(12)
Council on Environmental Quality (1970)
The Force of Public Awareness	227	(6)
Ralph Nader
Respect for Nature	233	(4)
Gary Snyder
The Debate over Growth	237	(6)
Garrett Hardin
Mineral King and ``Standing'' for Trees	243	(3)
William O. Douglas
Friendship with the Earth	246	(9)
David R. Brower
PART FIVE THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALISM, 1973--1990	255	(94)
Wilderness Advocacy	259	(9)
Roderick Frazier Nash
Nuclear Winter	268	(7)
Paul Ehrlich
Religion and the Environment	275	(5)
Wendell Berry
Human Responsibility for Environments beyond Earth	280	(5)
Gar Smith
Schism in Environmentalism	285	(9)
Kirkpatrick Sale
Shortcomings of Environmentalism	294	(5)
Murray Bookchin
Monkeywrenching	299	(10)
Edward Abbey
Dave Foreman
Deep Ecology	309	(7)
George Sessions
Bill Devall
Species Extinction	316	(7)
Edward O. Wilson
Sustainability	323	(6)
Lester R. Brown
Sandra L. Postel
A Troubled Future	329	(7)
Gerald O. Barney
Future Environmental Challenges	336	(13)
John H. Adams
Robert Cahn
Selected Bibliography	349