An Everglades Providence - 9780820330716
Un libro in lingua di Davis Jack E. edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 2009
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In the first comprehensive biography of Douglas, Jack E. Davis explores the 108-year life of this compelling woman. Douglas was more than an environmental activist. She was a suffragist, a lifetime feminist and supporter of the ERA, a champion of social justice, and an author of diverse literary talent. She came of age literally and professionally during the American environmental century, the century in which Americans mobilized an unprecedented popular movement to counter the equally unprecedented liberties they had taken in exploiting, polluting, and destroying the natural world.
The Everglades were a living barometer of America's often tentative shift toward greater environmental responsibility. Reconstructing this larger picture, Davis recounts the shifts in Douglas's own life and her instrumental role in four important developments that contributed to Everglades protection: the making of a positive wetland image, the creation of a national park, the expanding influence of ecological science, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. In the grand but beleaguered Everglades, which Douglas came to understand is a vast natural system that supports human life, she saw nature's providence.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: An Everglades Providence
- Sottotitolo: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Davis Jack E.
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: Univ of Georgia Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Febbraio '09
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Conservationists Florida Biography Feminists United States Biography Authors, American 20th century Biography
- Pagine: 758
- Peso gr: 1304
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 165 x 63
- ISBN-10: 082033071X
- EAN-13: 9780820330716