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FDR and the Environment (World of the Roosevelts)
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Paperback. When one thinks of the New Deal era, the issue of the environment does not immediately come to mind. Yet New Deal policies had a huge impact on environmental thinking, defining a new role for the federal government in the scientific management of the natural environment. Editor(s): Woolner, David B.; Henderson, Henry L. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. 288 pages. Editor(s): Woolner, David B.; Henderson, Henry L. When one thinks of the New Deal era, the issue of the environment does not immediately come to mind. Yet New Deal policies had a huge impact on environmental thinking, defining a new role for the federal government in the scientific management of the natural environment. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBWQ. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 18. Weight: 278.
This book demonstrates that there is much about the New Deal that can be characterized as environmental, once one substitutes the word 'environmental' for 'conservation'. Indeed, the scholarship that is contained within this extraordinary book will help correct the widely held view that the New Deal is virtually a blank space in the history of modern environmentalism. In fact, the New Deal carried forward and greatly extended the work of the Progressive Conservation Era, and in many ways helped establish the foundation for the modern environmental movement.
This book demonstrates that there is much about the New Deal that can be characterized as environmental, once one substitutes the word 'environmental' for 'conservation'. Indeed, the scholarship that is contained within this extraordinary book will help correct the widely held view that the New Deal is virtually a blank space in the history of modern environmentalism. In fact, the New Deal carried forward and greatly extended the work of the Progressive Conservation Era, and in many ways helped establish the foundation for the modern environmental movement.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
The World of the Roosevelt's
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230619685
SKU
V9780230619685
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About N/A
DAVID WOOLNER is Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and Executive Director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. HENRY L. HENDERSON is President of Policy Solutions Ltd., an environmental consulting firm based in Chicago, USA, and is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for FDR and the Environment (World of the Roosevelts)
'For those of us who lived through the era of the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the hero of the conservation movement...Never before [this book] has the performance of an administration with respect to the environment been appraised so diligently. This book not only gives us a fresh view of one of the most significant features of the age ... Read more