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Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951

Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951


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David Stradling explains the evolution of one of America's first environmental movements - the anti-smoke crusade of the early 1900s. The roots of modern environmentalism, Stradling explains, reach deep into the Victorian era, when early reformers connected beauty, health and cleanliness with morality and demanded government assistance in maintaining all of them. Air quality became an important issue for middle-class residents in coal-dependent cities - how could a city without pure air, they asked, truly be clean, healthful, and moral? Eventually engineers came to the fore, displaced the reformers (many of them women) as leaders of the movement and answered their own question - how to abate dirty air.

About the Author :
David Stradling is an assistant professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.

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This clearly written, well-argued, and deeply researched book goes well beyond 'smokestacks and progressives' in helping us understand the important environmental issues embedded in the history of the American city. -- Martin Melosi Journal of American History Smokestacks and Progressives should change the way scholars understand the history of environmental activism. -- Adam Rome Environmental History A clearly written and well-documented account. -- Bernard Mergen American Studies International Stradling's... prose is pleasurable to read, his research broadens our grasp of the nation of cities, and the book provides a fascinating study of this neglected corner of urban Progressive reform. -- Barbara Hahn Ohio Valley History


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  • ISBN-13: 9780801872501
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 476 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801872502
  • Publisher Date: 26 Feb 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951
  • Width: 152 mm


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