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A History of Environmenta. has been added to your Cart. Hays provides an overview of environmental politics during the last half century, both its formative and its maturing years, that will be useful to those who are actively engaged in environmental affairs and those who wish to watch and assess it from the sidelines. His themes are both simple and diverse. His overall focus is on the emergence of an environmental culture which has engaged millions of Americans in varied ways of thought and action, on the one hand, and the intense opposition to that drive on the other.

Start by marking A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945 as Want to Read . A leading scholar of American environmental history, Samuel Pfrimmer Hays was Distinguished Service Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.

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The book disappoints in other ways too. Hays' great strength in Gospel and Beauty is his magisterial mastery of historical case studies, studies . Hays' great strength in Gospel and Beauty is his magisterial mastery of historical case studies, studies that logically underpin and frame his analysis. This book lacks the detail of historical stories, and the bland conclusions and summaries do not work without their weight. Without the stories, we are left with opinion and surmise, and we are forced to take the author on trust.

An overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present-with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy.

Long before public life in America was enlivened with such dramatic sound bites as acid rain, global warming, rain forests and the ozone layer, Samuel P. Hays was well launched in his career of tracking environmental politics. His first foray, a book on the early 20th century conservation movement, published in 1958, helped to launch environmental history as a field, and his continued writings after coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 1960 helped to bring the field to full flower

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A History of Environmental Politics since 1945. An overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy.

Samuel Pfrimmer Hays (April 5, 1921 – November 22, 2017) was a pioneering environmental, social and political historian.

Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press. Book Description: An overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present-with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy. eISBN: 978-0-8229-7224-2.

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