Publisher's Synopsis
For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Environmental Policy and American Environmental History.
This anthology of over 44 original readings-accompanied by substantial editorial commentary-traces a two-hundred year history of U.S. environmental policy, and links intellectual thought with political action. The readings-organized into seven historical eras-provide a historical dimension for understanding contemporary environmental politics and the implications for environmental policy, as more and more voices are added to the nation's environmental dialogue. Beginning with such classics as James Madison's Federalist Paper #10 and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, it traces the gradual widening of this dialogue up to the present time.
