Bøker av Kevin C. Armitage

In this concise and engaging survey of more than 250 years of American environmental activism to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society, historian Kevin Armitage tells the story of a magnificent American achievement-and the ongoing problems that environmentalism faces today.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, thousands of Americans turned to an unexpected pastime that had been theirs to take up all along: the study of nature. This title presents the comprehensive history of the nature study movement, demonstrating its significance to American environmental thought and politics.