Natural Protest

Michael Egan is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the director of the Sustainable Future History Project at McMaster University. He is the author of Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism.Jeff Crane is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Sam Houston State University.

• List of figures, Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 “Fancy Foreshadowed a Magnificent Destiny”: The Market Revolution and the Kennebec River Dam Fight, Chapter 2 Organizing Environmental Protest: Swill Milk and Social Activism in Nineteenth-Century New York City, Chapter 3 “That Shocking Calamity”: Revisiting George Catlin’s Environmental Politics, Chapter 4 “The Science-Spirit in a Democracy”: Liberty Hyde Bailey, Nature Study, and the Democratic Impulse of Progressive Conservation, Chapter 5 The Hetch Hetchy Controversy, Chapter 6 Rethinking Reclamation: How an Alliance of Duck Hunters and Cattle Ranchers Brought Wetland Conservation to California’s Central Valley Project, Chapter 7 A Twisted Road to Earth Day: Air Pollution as an Issue of Social Movements after World War II, Chapter 8 A Call to Action: Silent Spring, Public Disclosure, and the Rise of Modern Environmentalism, Chapter 9 Ball of Confusion: Public Health, African Americans, and Earth Day 1970, Chapter 10 “Save French Pete”: Evolution of Wilderness Protests in Oregon, Chapter 11 Parting the Waters: The Ecumenical Task Force at Love Canal and Beyond, Chapter 12 Cancer Valley, California: Pesticides, Politics, and Childhood Disease in the Central Valley, Chapter 13 “It Seems Like We Should Be on the Same Side!”: Native Americans, Environmentalists, and the Grand Canyon, Index

This book is a valuable readable critique of American environmentalism. Highly recommended. - CHOICE