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The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism

Autor Harriet Ritvo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2012
Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation—and helped launch the environmental movement as we know it. Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred miles south to the burgeoning industrial city and its workforce. This feat of civil engineering—and of natural resource diversion—inspired one of the first environmental struggles of modern times. The Dawn of Green re-creates the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between conservationists who wished to preserve the lake and developers eager to supply the needs of a growing urban population. Bringing to vivid life the colorful and strong-minded characters who populated both sides of the debate, noted historian Harriet Ritvo revisits notions of the natural promulgated by romantic poets, recreationists, resource managers, and industrial developers to establish Thirlmere as the template for subsequent—and continuing—environmental struggles.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226720869
ISBN-10: 0226720861
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 60 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Harriet Ritvo is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination;The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age; and Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History.

Cuprins

Introduction

One           The Unspoiled Lake 
Two           The Dynamic City   
Three         The Struggle for Possession 
Four          The Cup and the Lip          
Five           The Harvest of Thirlmere

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes                                                                                                                                
Bibliography
Illustration Credits    
                  Index