Inherit the Holy Mountain

Zusatztext Stoll's book is an important contribution to our understanding of the religious roots of environmentalism Informationen zum Autor Mark Stoll is Associate Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies at Texas Tech University. Klappentext Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused. Zusammenfassung Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication Epigraph Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Calvinism and Nature: American Foundations 2. Origins of Conservation in the Puritan Landscape 3. Building the Moral Society: Farms, Forests, and Parks 4. Nature, Parks, and Emersonian Modernism 5. Progressive Presbyterian Conservation 6. Presbyterians and the Environmental Movement 7. Nature and New England's Outsiders 8. A New Era Conclusion Appendix Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Mark Stoll, Mark (Associate Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies Stoll, Stoll Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2015
• EAN: 9780190230869
• ISBN: 978-0-19-023086-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, Defence strategy, planning & research, Military and defence strategy, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science