232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Environmental movements have produced some impressive results, including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and places. But movements that challenged western prosperity and comfort seldom made much progress, and many radical environmentalists have been unabashed utopianists. In this short guide, Peterson del Mar untangles this... Read more
Introduction. 1. Domesticating the Wild. 2. Industrialization and Nature Loving. 3. The Friendly Wild of Post-War Affluence. 4. Nature and Counterculture. 5. Breakthrough. 6. Radical Departures. 7. Thwarted and Splintered. 8. Extreme Nature Loving
Biography
David Peterson del Mar grew up in a very rural area as the son of a commercial fisherman and worked as a labourer for a sawmill. Over the past twelve years he has taught environmental history in Canada and the United States and has published four books on social history, including the award winning What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence against Wives (1996).
