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Robert Gioielli - Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago - 9781439904657 - V9781439904657
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Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

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Description for Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago Hardback. Focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during late 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, and political conflicts. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 1KBBNC; JFSG; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, social, and political conflicts. As deindustrialization, urban renewal, and suburbanization caused the decline of the urban environment, residents--primarily African Americans and working-class whites--organized to protect their families and communities from health threats and environmental destruction.

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
Condition
New
Series
Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439904657
SKU
V9781439904657
Shipping Time
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About Robert Gioielli
Robert R. Gioielli is Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College.

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