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Smokestacks and Progressives - 9780801872501

Un libro in lingua di David Stradling edito da Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2002

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In Smokestacks and Progressives, David Stradling explains the evolution of one of America's first environmental movements—the antismoke crusade of the early 1900s. The roots of modern environmentalism, Stradling explains, reach deep into the Victorian era, when early reformers connected beauty, health, and cleanliness with morality and demanded government assistance in maintaining all of them. Air quality became an important issue for middle-class residents in coal-dependent cities—how could a city without pure air, they asked, truly be clean, healthful, and moral? Eventually engineers came to the fore, displaced the reformers (many of them women) as leaders of the movement, and answered their own question—how to abate dirty air.

Informazioni bibliografiche

  • Titolo del Libro in lingua: Smokestacks and Progressives
  • Lingua: English
  • AutoreDavid Stradling
  • Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
  • Data di Pubblicazione: 18 Novembre '02
  • Genere: HISTORY
  • ISBN-10: 0801872502
  • EAN-13: 9780801872501