Palgrave Environmental Reader

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Richar Newman, Richard Newman, Daniel Payne, Daniel Newman Payne
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9781403965936
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6593-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Cultural History, History, Nature, Environment, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Environmental Sciences, Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Civilization—History, environment;politics