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In this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914. Hays now deepens his coverage of cultural transformations in a study well known for its concise treatment of political and economic movements.Hays draws on the vast knowledge of America's urban and social history that has been developed over the last thirty-eight years to make the second edition an unusually well-rounded study. He enhances the original coverage of politics, labor, and business with new accounts of the

"A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945 develops a comprehensive perspective on environmental affairs in the United States during the last third of the twentieth century for the specialist, the general public, and the student. Sam Hays's depth of knowledge and high level of insight will inform both those who are environmental experts and those who wish to take a first step at grasping the intricacies of environmental politics. And it constitutes a formative guide to a subject that promises to engage the nation even more fully in the twenty-first century."--Jacket

Over the past three decades environmental objectives have emerged in the West with considerable strength and influence to reshape public attitudes. Until World War II agriculture and raw-materials extraction still dominated the region's economic and political views.' But in recent years the West has begun to change rapidly. New residents have brought with them new attitudes toward natural resources. Increasingly, those resources are thought of as an environment to enhance individual and regional standards of living rather than as material commodities alone. An indigenous environmental constitutency has become more vigorous in challenging the previously dominant extractive economy of lumber, grazing, and mining.

An overview of the development of indigenous environmental attitudes in eleven western states, based on an analysis of documentary materials, including newsletters from environmental groups, federal & state documents on conservation & environmental affairs, & articles in regional papers & environmental publications. Examined are: wilderness & forest management issues supported by various movements; individual state environmental policies & legislation; opposition attempts by various industries, ranchers & farmers, & state governments; limitations to environmental actions posed by the Bureau of Land Management & political interests; & the media representation of the East-West conflict over economy vs environment. It is concluded that a new western environmentalism is mobilizing its information resources to influence state & federal policies affecting ecology in the region. M. Malas

Exploration in Environmental History represents four decades of writing from one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of environmental history. Samuel Hays's dedication and research is apparent in every one of these essays, four of which are published here for the first time

Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and population-resources balances. He examines the politics of environmental science, economic analysis, planning, and management, and traces the impact of environmental issues on local, state, and federal government. The book explores political controversy to shed light on the working of political institutions and to establish their relationship to social change