The environmental debate : a documentary history / edited by Peninah Neimark and Peter Rhoades Mott.

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Contributors: Neimark, Peninah, 1938-, Mott, Peter Rhoades
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series:Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues.
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Local Note:WIT BNA TOC 200804 jea.
Table of Contents:
  • Significant Dates in American Environmental History
  • Pt. I. Foundations of American Environmental Thought and Action
  • Document 1. Biblical Views of Nature and Humanity
  • Document 2. Virgil's Pastoral View of Nature (c. 50 B.C.E.)
  • Document 3. Christopher Columbus Inventories the New World's Natural Resources (1493)
  • Document 4. Jean Ribaut Discovers the Natural Abundance of Terra Florida (1563)
  • Document 5. Baltasar de Obregon's Account of the Riches of New Mexico (1584)
  • Document 6. Thomas Hariot on the Death of Indians from a Disease Brought from Europe (1588)
  • Document 7. William Bradford on Life in the Wilderness (1620, 1621)
  • Document 8. Francis Baron on Science and Technology (1629)
  • Document 9. Regulating the Herring Run in the Town of Plymouth (1637, 1638, 1639, 1662)
  • Document 10. Predator Control and Game Hunting Regulation in Rhode Island Colony (1639, 1646)
  • Document 11. Thomas Hobbes's Social Contract Theory (1651)
  • Document 12. Pollution in Plymouth Colony Harbor (1668)
  • Document 13. William Penn Contracts to Set Aside Timbered Lands (1681)
  • Document 14. John Locke on Property and Labor (1690)
  • Document 15. John Ray on Gardens and Wilderness (1691)
  • Document 16. Jonathan Edwards on God and Nature (1739)
  • Document 17. Peter Kalm on Land Management (1753)
  • Document 18. William Blackstone's On the Rights of Things (1765-1769)
  • Document 19. John Bartram on Reclaiming Florida's Wetlands (1767)
  • Pt. II. Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776-1840
  • Document 20. Thomas Jefferson on Agrarianism and Industrialization (1785, 1816)
  • Document 21. James Madison on Population and Property (1786, 1788)
  • Document 22. Philip Freneau's Noble Savage (1788)
  • Document 23. William Bartram on the Human Impact on the Environment (1791)
  • Document 24. Benjamin Rush on Saving the Sugar Maple (1791)
  • Document 25. The Founding Fathers on the Care of the Land (1793, 1818)
  • Document 26. Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
  • Document 27. Meriwether Lewis on the Slaughter of Buffaloes (1805)
  • Document 28. Act Establishing the First Federal Forest Reserve (1817)
  • Document 29. Act to Protect Useful Birds in Massachusetts (1818)
  • Document 30. James Fenimore Cooper Laments the Disappearance of Unregulated Wilderness (1823)
  • Document 31. George Catlin's Proposal for a National Park (1832)
  • Document 32. Black Hawk on the Indians and the Land (1833)
  • Document 33. John James Audubon on the Senseless Destruction of Fish, Birds, and Quadrupeds (1833)
  • Pt. III. The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840-1890
  • Document 34. Thomas Cole's "Lament of the Forest" (1841)
  • Document 35. John James Audubon on the Decimation of the Bison Herds (1843)
  • Document 36. Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature (1844, 1884)
  • Document 37. William Cullen Bryant's Proposal for a Great Municipal Park (1844)
  • Document 38. Andrew Jackson Downing Talks about Public Parks and Gardens (1848)
  • Document 39. Swamp and Overflow Act (1850)
  • Document 40. The Shattuck Report's Recommendations for Sanitary Improvement (1850)
  • Document 41. Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot in a Mill Town (1861)
  • Document 42. Homestead Act (1862)
  • Document 43. George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature (1864)
  • Document 44. Henry David Thoreau on the Value of Living Things (1864)
  • Document 45. Act Granting Yo-Semite Valley to California (1864)
  • Document 46. The Citizens' Association of New York on Sewage and Disease (1865)
  • Document 47. John Muir on the Spirituality of Nature (1866)
  • Document 48. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux on Creating Parks to Serve the Public (1866, 1872)
  • Document 49. Charles Darwin on the Similarity between Humans and Other Animals (1871)
  • Document 50. Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
  • Document 51. Mining Act (1872)
  • Document 52. Carl Schurz on the Need for Federal Forest Conservation (1877)
  • Document 53. Henry George on Land Development (1879)
  • Document 54. Act Establishing the Adirondack Forest Preserve (1885)
  • Document 55. American Ornithologists' Union's Model Law (1886)
  • Document 56. George Bird Grinnell and Cecelia Thaxter on the Audubon Society Cause (1886)
  • Document 57. Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club (1887)
  • Document 58. John Wesley Powell on the Lands of the Arid Region (1890)
  • Pt. IV. The Conservation Movement Era, 1890-1920
  • Document 59. Forest Reserve Act (1891)
  • Document 60. Frederick J. Turner on the Disappearance of the Frontier (1894)
  • Document 61. Rivers and Harbors Act (1899)
  • Document 62. Theodore Roosevelt on Forest Conservation and Land Reclamation (1901)
  • Document 63. Reclamation Act (1902)
  • Document 64. Upton Sinclair on the Adulteration of Processed Food (1906)
  • Document 65. Ellen Swallow Richards on Sanitation and Human Ecology (1907)
  • Document 66. Theodore Roosevelt on the Conservation and Use of Natural Resources (1907)
  • Document 67. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., on the Smoke Nuisance (1908)
  • Document 68. John Muir, James Phelan, and the Battle over the Flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley (1908-1913)
  • Document 69. Richard Ballinger on the Development of the West (1909)
  • Document 70. Report of the National Conservation Commission (1909)
  • Document 71. WJ McGee on Conservation (1909)
  • Document 72. Jane Addams on Garbage (1910)
  • Document 73. Gifford Pinchot on Conservation and the National Interest (1911)
  • Pt. V. Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920-1960
  • Document 74. Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon et al. (1922)
  • Document 75. Village of Euclid et al. v. Ambler Realty Company (1926)
  • Document 76. Henry Beston on the Human Relationship with Nature (1928)
  • Document 77. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Conservation of America's Forests (1930)
  • Document 78. Stuart Chase on Waste in the Machine Age (1931)
  • Document 79. Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink on the Dangers of Manufactured Products (1932)
  • Document 80. Luther Standing Bear on Native Americans and the Rights of Other Living Things (1933)
  • Document 81. Arthur Tansley on the Concept of the Ecosystem (1935)
  • Document 82. H. V. Harlan and M. L. Martini on the Loss of Genetic Diversity (1936)
  • Document 83. Lewis Mumford on Regional Planning (1938)
  • Document 84. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
  • Document 85. Marjory Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades (1947)
  • Document 86. Roger Tory Peterson on Bird Population (1948)
  • Document 87. Fairfield Osborn on the Relatedness of All Living Things (1948)
  • Document 88. Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic (1949)
  • Document 89. President's Materials Policy Commission on Economic Growth and Resource Policy (1952)
  • Document 90. Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., on Limits to Growth (1953)
  • Document 91. J. Robert Oppenheimer on the Use of Science (1953)
  • Document 92. Bernard Frank on Development and Water Availability (1955)
  • Document 93. Clean Air Act (1955)
  • Document 94. John Kenneth Galbraith Asks, "How Much Should a Country Consume?" (1958)
  • Document 95. David Brower Demands Support for the Wilderness Act (1959)
  • Pt. VI. The Heyday of the Environmental Movement, 1960-1980
  • Document 96. The Surgeon General's Report on Environmental Health (1960)
  • Document 97. Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne on the Balance of Nature (1960)
  • Document 98. Murray Bookchin on the Synthetic Environment (1962)
  • Document 99. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962)
  • Document 100. Stewart L. Udall on the Land Ethic (1963)
  • Document 101. John F. Kennedy on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
  • Document 102. Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission (1965)
  • Document 103. California Land Conservation Act (1965) and Article XXVIII of the California Constitution (1966)
  • Document 104. Kenneth E. Boulding on the Spaceship Economy (1966)
  • Document 105. Lynn White, Jr., on Western Religions and the Environmental Crisis (1966)
  • Document 106. Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb (1968)
  • Document 107. Garrett Hardin on Controlling Access to the Commons (1968)
  • Document 108. John Teal and Mildred Teal on the Productivity of the Salt Marsh (1969)
  • Document 109. Ian McHarg on the Fitness of Ecosystems (1969)
  • Document 110. National Environmental Policy Act (1969)
  • Document 111. Richard Nixon on the Need for Environmental Regulation (1970)
  • Document 112. Clean Air Act Amendments (1970)
  • Document 113. Dennis Puleston on the Founding of the Environmental Defense Fund (1971)
  • Document 114. Barry Commoner on Nature, Man, and Technology (1971)
  • Document 115. Clean Water Act (1972)
  • Document 116. Christopher Stone Proposes Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972)
  • Document 117. Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)
  • Document 118. Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment (1972)
  • Document 119. Endangered Species Act (1973)
  • Document 120. Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia (1975)
  • Document 121. Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
  • Document 122. Greenpeace on the Need for Radical Action (1976)
  • Pt. VII. Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980-2000
  • Document 123. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1980)
  • Document 124. Mark Sagoff on the Public Interest (1981)
  • Document 125. Lester R. Brown on Building a Sustainable Society (1981)
  • Document 126. Julian L. Simon on Population Growth (1981)
  • Document 127. Coastal Barrier Resources Act (1981)
  • Document 128. Arne Naess on Deep Ecology (1982, 1984)
  • Document 129. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1983)
  • Document 130. Bernard Cohen on Nuclear Energy and Risk Assessment (1983)
  • Document 131. Bob Graham on Restoring the Kissimmee River-Lake Okeechobee-Everglades Ecosystem (1983)
  • Document 132. Edward O. Wilson on the Need for Conservation and a Conservation Ethic (1984, 1998)
  • Document 133. Jurgen Schmandt, Hilliard Roderick, and Andrew Morriss on Acid Rain and Friendly Neighbors (1985)
  • Document 134. United Nations Convention (1985) and Protocol (1987) on Ozone Depletion
  • Document 135. United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice on Toxic Waste and Race (1987)
  • Document 136. Dixy Lee Ray Asks, "Who Speaks for Science?" (1990)
  • Document 137. Roger Smith on Industry and the Environment (1990)
  • Document 138. California Air Resources Board Lowers Its Vehicle Emissions Standards (1990, 1996)
  • Document 139. John P. Holdren on Energy and Human Well-Being (1990)
  • Document 140. Barry Lopez on a Sense of Place (1990)
  • Document 141. Albert Gore on the Ecological Perspective (1992)
  • Document 142. United Nations Convention (1992) and Protocol (1997) on Climate Change
  • Document 143. Carl Safina on the Decline of Fishes (1995)
  • Document 144. Edward Tenner on Shifting Liability (1996)
  • Document 145. Jane Lubchenco on Environmental Issues for the Twenty-first Century (1997)
  • Document 146. Jeremy Rifkin on Biotechnology and the Environment (1998). App. I. Landmarks in U.S. Environmental Legislation
  • App. II. Major International Agreements Relating to the Environment.