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Preface vii
Introduction 1
Philosophical Foundations 3
Biblical Justification for Dominating Nature 3
Seeking New Land 5
Rational Nature of the World 8
Social and Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century 10
Conclusion 12
The 1400s through the 1700s: Inhabiting a New Land 13
Native Americans as Prototypical Environmentalists 14
Early Colonial Environmental Attitudes 17
Conclusion 21
The Early 1800s: Destroying the Frontier 23
Manifest Destiny 24
Domesticating the Wilderness 26
Final Conquest of the West 29
Renewed Interest in Nature 31
Conclusion 35
The Late 1880s: Building an Industrial Nation 37
Population Growth and Consumerism 37
Devastating the Land 40
Overconsumption of Natural Resources 42
Voices for Nature 46
Conclusion 49
The 1900s through the 1930s: Beginnings of the Conservation Movement 51
Conversation during the Progressive Era 52
Environmental Decay duringthe Roaring Twenties 60
Conversation Policies under Roosevelt's New Deal 64
Conclusion 67
The 1940s through the 1960s: Prelude to the Green Decade 70
Environmental Costs of Scientific Progress in the 1940s 70
The Conservative 1950s 72
Emerging Voices in the 1960s 73
The Environmental Movement Begins to Mobilize 77
Conclusion 82
The 1970s: The Conservation Movement Matures 84
Mainstream and Alternative Environmental Groups 84
New Environmental Legislation 92
Jimmy Carter and the Envirocrats 96
Conclusion 99
The 1980s: A Conservative Backlash 101
Ronald Reagan's Environmental Deregulation 101
George Bush as the Environmental President 104
Employment versus the Environment 107
Environmental Groups Actions and Reactions 109
International Environmental Concern 110
Conclusion 114
The Early 1990s: Government Retrenchment and Public Apathy 116
Environmental Optimism under Bill Clinton 116
A Growing Countermovement 118
A Green Revival 120
A Conservative Resurgence 125
Conclusion 131
The Late 1990s: The Institutionalization of the Environmental Movement 133
Clinton's Moderate Environmental Approach 133
Growing Public Concern 138
New Activism 141
Congressional Action and Inaction 144
The Global Future of the Environmental Movement 149
Conclusion 152
The Environmental Movement in the Post 9/11 World 155
The Presidential Election of 2000 155
The Post 9/11 World 159
Bush and Changing Regulations 163
The Debate and the Gamble 164
Conclusion 167
Conclusion 169
Glossary 174
Bibliography and Suggested Readings 188
Index 193
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