Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-eisenhower Era - Couverture souple

Richardson, Elmo

 
9780813154459: Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-eisenhower Era

Synopsis

This book is a chronicle of the myopia and gamesmanship that dominated Americans' understanding of their environment on the eve of the nation's ecology crisis. Based almost entirely on primary sources, Elmo Richardson's study examines the interplay between the national policies and programs for development and preservation of natural resources in the centralist Truman administration and the localist, enterprise-oriented Eisenhower administration. He shows that the decade examined brought about v

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À propos de l?auteur

Elmo Richardson is the author of The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913, and several articles dealing with federal resource programs during the 1930s.

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9780813112848: Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0813112842 ISBN 13 :  9780813112848
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 1973
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