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Title: Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in the Twentieth-Century America

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites' lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt.

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Authors: Sellers, Christopher C.

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Publisher Location: North Carolina

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Topics: Health, Housing and Segregation, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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