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Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970
Karl Boyd Brooks
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Description for Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970
Paperback. Dispels the conventional belief that American environmental law was a product of the 1970s, finding instead that its origins go back to New Deal and Cold War policies, and traces the dramatic post-war shift in the way Americans viewed the natural environment. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; LNKJ; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Most Americans—even environmentalists—date the emergence of laws protecting nature to the early 1970s. But Karl Boyd Brooks shows that, far from being a product of that activist decade, American environmental law emerged well before the first Earth Day, often in unexpected places far from Capitol Hill.
Surveying the landscape from the end of World War II to Earth Day 1970, Brooks traces a dramatic shift in Americans’ relationship to the environment and the emergence of new environmental statutes. He takes readers into legislative hearing rooms, lawyers’ conferences, and administrators’ offices to describe how Americans forged a new body of ... Read more
Most Americans—even environmentalists—date the emergence of laws protecting nature to the early 1970s. But Karl Boyd Brooks shows that, far from being a product of that activist decade, American environmental law emerged well before the first Earth Day, often in unexpected places far from Capitol Hill.
Surveying the landscape from the end of World War II to Earth Day 1970, Brooks traces a dramatic shift in Americans’ relationship to the environment and the emergence of new environmental statutes. He takes readers into legislative hearing rooms, lawyers’ conferences, and administrators’ offices to describe how Americans forged a new body of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618934
SKU
V9780700618934
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About Karl Boyd Brooks
Karl Boyd Brooks is associate professor of history and environmental science at the University of Kansas, USA.
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