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Green voices : defending nature and the environment in American civic discourse / edited by Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438458519
  • 1438458517
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Green voicesDDC classification:
  • 363.700973 23
LOC classification:
  • GE197 .G74 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Green Voices in the Swelling Chorus of American Environmental Advocacy / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy -- Coming to Grips with the Size of America' s Environment : Charles Sumner Says Farewell to Montesquieu / Michael J. Hostetler -- "I Had Been Crying in the Wilderness" : John Muir's Shifting Sublime Response / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Impulses of Conservation / Leroy G. Dorsey -- See America First! : The Aesthetics of Environmental Exceptionalism / Anne Marie Todd -- A Call to Partnership, Health, and Pure Fire : A Vital Vision of the Future in Aldo Leopold's "The Farmer as a Conservationist" Address / Melba Hoffer -- "Conserving Not Scenery, But the Human Spirit" : The Environmental Oratory of Sigurd Olson / C. Brant Short -- "What's Wrong with a Little Emotion?" : Margaret E. Murie's Wilderness Rhetoric / Elizabeth Lawson -- Rachel Carson's War of Words Against Government and Industry : Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific Discourse / Michel M. Haigh and Ann Marie Major -- Mortification and Moral Equivalents : President Jimmy Carter's Address on Energy and the Environment on April 18, 1977 / Terence Check -- Lois Gibbs' Rhetoric of Care : Voicing a Relational Ethic of Compassion, Inclusivity, and Community in Response to the Toxic Disaster at Love Canal / Katie L. Gibson -- Restoring Frank Church's Natural Place in American Public Address : Orations that Saved "The River of No Return Wilderness" / Ellen W. Gorsevski -- "We Will Live to Piss on their Graves" : Edward Abbey, Earth First!, and the Galvanizing of a Nation / Derek G. Ross -- "I'm Angry Both as a Citizen and a Father" : Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Melodramatic Discourse on the Environmental Consequences of "Crony Capitalism" / Ross Singer -- Ashley Judd's Indictment of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining : A Stain on the Conscience of America / Beth M. Waggenspack and Matthew VanDyke -- Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice : Benjamin Chavis Jr. and Issues of Definition and Community / Richard W. Leeman.
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Green Voices in the Swelling Chorus of American Environmental Advocacy / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy -- Coming to Grips with the Size of America' s Environment : Charles Sumner Says Farewell to Montesquieu / Michael J. Hostetler -- "I Had Been Crying in the Wilderness" : John Muir's Shifting Sublime Response / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Impulses of Conservation / Leroy G. Dorsey -- See America First! : The Aesthetics of Environmental Exceptionalism / Anne Marie Todd -- A Call to Partnership, Health, and Pure Fire : A Vital Vision of the Future in Aldo Leopold's "The Farmer as a Conservationist" Address / Melba Hoffer -- "Conserving Not Scenery, But the Human Spirit" : The Environmental Oratory of Sigurd Olson / C. Brant Short -- "What's Wrong with a Little Emotion?" : Margaret E. Murie's Wilderness Rhetoric / Elizabeth Lawson -- Rachel Carson's War of Words Against Government and Industry : Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific Discourse / Michel M. Haigh and Ann Marie Major -- Mortification and Moral Equivalents : President Jimmy Carter's Address on Energy and the Environment on April 18, 1977 / Terence Check -- Lois Gibbs' Rhetoric of Care : Voicing a Relational Ethic of Compassion, Inclusivity, and Community in Response to the Toxic Disaster at Love Canal / Katie L. Gibson -- Restoring Frank Church's Natural Place in American Public Address : Orations that Saved "The River of No Return Wilderness" / Ellen W. Gorsevski -- "We Will Live to Piss on their Graves" : Edward Abbey, Earth First!, and the Galvanizing of a Nation / Derek G. Ross -- "I'm Angry Both as a Citizen and a Father" : Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Melodramatic Discourse on the Environmental Consequences of "Crony Capitalism" / Ross Singer -- Ashley Judd's Indictment of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining : A Stain on the Conscience of America / Beth M. Waggenspack and Matthew VanDyke -- Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice : Benjamin Chavis Jr. and Issues of Definition and Community / Richard W. Leeman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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