Green voices defending nature and the environment in American civic discourse
"The written works of nature's leading advocates--from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few--have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. Afte...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press
2016.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649787106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
