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Introduction / Michael Egan & Jeff Crane -- "Fancy foreshadowed a magnificent destiny": the market revolution and the Kennebec River Dam Fight / Jeff Crane -- Organizing environmental protest: swill milk and social activism in nineteenth-century New York City / Michael Egan -- "That shocking calamity": revisiting George Catlin's environmental politics / John Hausdoerffer -- "The science-spirit in a democracy": Liberty Hyde Bailey, nature study, and the democratic impulse of progressive conservation / Kevin C. Armitage -- The Hetch Hetchy controversy / Robert W. Righter -- Rethinking reclamation: how an alliance of duck hunters and cattle ranchers brought wetland conservation to California's Central Valley project / Philip Garone -- A twisted road to Earth Day: air pollution as an issue of social movements after World War II / Frank Uekoetter -- A call to action: Silent Spring, public disclosure, and the rise of modern environmentalism / Sarah L. Thomas -- Ball of confusion: public health, African Americans, and Earth Day 1970 / Sylvia Hood Washington -- "Save French Pete": evolution of wilderness protests in Oregon / Kevin R. Marsh -- Parting the waters: the ecumenical task force at Love Canal and beyond / Elizabeth D. Blum -- Cancer Valley, California: pesticides, politics, and childhood disease in the Central Valley / Adam Tompkins -- "It seems like we should be on the same side!": Native Americans, environmentalists, and the Grand Canyon / Will McArthur. |
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