The Palgrave Environmental Reader

by Payne, Daniel G.; Newman, Richard S.

• ISBN13: 9781403965943
• ISBN10: 1403965943
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Palgrave Environmental Reader explores America's evolving fascination with nature and environmental concerns. From the New England Transcendentalists to the UN convention on climate change, this book includes works by Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, and others. Consisting of thirty-five important pieces covering a variety of issues, this reader distinguishes itself from other writing on the subject by presenting more extensive excerpts and by emphasizing themes such as environmental activism, racism, and law.

Author Biography

Daniel G. Payne is Assistant Professor of English, SUNY-Oneonta, and is the author of Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics. He is the director of the John Burroughs NatureWriting Conference at Oneonta.
Richard S. Newman is Assistant Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic and co-editor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African American Protest Literature, 1790-1860.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
William Blackstone (1723-1780)	7	(8)
From Commentaries on the Laws of England (1803 edition)	8	(7)
William Penn (1644-1718)	15	(4)
Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania (1681)	16	(3)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)	19	(8)
From An Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-places (1744)	20	(7)
Peter Kalm (1716-1779)	27	(8)
From Travels Into North America (1753)	28	(7)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)	35	(12)
From Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)	35	(12)
William Bartram (1739-1823)	47	(6)
From Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, etc. (1791)	47	(6)
Red Jacket (Segoyewatha) (ca. 1750--1830)	53	(6)
Red Jacket's Reply to Reverend Cram (1809)	54	(5)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	59	(4)
From ``The American Scholar'' (1837)	60	(3)
George Catlin (1796--1872)	63	(10)
From Letters and Notes of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841)	64	(9)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	73	(6)
From ``Chesuncook'' (1858)	74	(5)
George Perkins Marsh (1801--1882)	79	(18)
From Man and Nature (1864)	79	(18)
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)	97	(4)
``The Utility of Trees'' (1865)	97	(4)
John Muir (1838-1914)	101	(10)
``God's First Temples: How Shall We Preserve Our Forests?'' (1876)	102	(3)
``Hetch Hetchy Valley,'' from The Yosemite (1913)	105	(6)
John Burroughs (1837--1921)	111	(12)
``The Faith of a Naturalist,'' from Accepting the Universe (1920)	112	(11)
``Forever Wild'' Provision of the New York State Constitution (Constitutional Convention of 1894)	123	(2)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858--1919)	125	(8)
Governor's Annual Message to the State of New York (1900)	125	(2)
From his First Annual Message as President (December 3, 1901)	127	(6)
Gifford Pinchot (1865--1946)	133	(6)
``Principles of Conservation,'' from The Fight for Conservation (1910)	134	(5)
Robert Marshall (1901--1939)	139	(10)
``The Problem of the Wilderness'' (1930)	140	(9)
Aldo Leopold (1887--1948)	149	(18)
``Threatened Species'' (1936)	150	(3)
``The Land Ethic,'' from A Sand Country Almanac (1949)	153	(14)
Rachel Carson (1907--1964)	167	(6)
``The Obligation to Endure,'' From Silent Spring (1962)	168	(5)
The Wilderness Act (1964)	173	(2)
Lynn White, Jr. (1907--1987)	175	(10)
``The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis'' (1967)	175	(10)
Garrett Hardin (1915--2003)	185	(14)
``The Tragedy of the Commons'' (1968)	185	(14)
Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)	199	(22)
Edward Abbey (1927--1989)	221	(8)
``Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom'' (1977)	222	(7)
Luella N. Kenny (1937--)	229	(4)
Statement to the Annual Meeting of Occidental Petroleum Share Holders: Corporate Responsibility Resolution (May 21, 1980)	230	(3)
Dolores LaChapelle (1925--)	233	(6)
``Ritual is Essential: Seeing Ritual and Ceremony as Sophisticated Social and Spiritual Technology'' (1984)	233	(6)
Arne Naess (1912--)	239	(20)
``The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects'' (1986)	239	(20)
United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice	259	(6)
``Executive Summary'' from Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987)	259	(6)
Edward O. Wilson (1929--)	265	(8)
``The Environmental Ethic,'' from The Diversity of Life (1992)	265	(8)
The Kyoto Protocol (1997)	273	(6)
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	273	(6)
Winona LaDuke (1959--)	279	(6)
``The Seventh Generation,'' from All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999)	279	(6)
Index	285