{"product_id":"9780807861103","title":"A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913","description":"The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in \u003ci\u003eA Word for Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates, who witnessed firsthand the impact of economic expansion and industrial revolution on fragile landscapes from the forests of New England to the mountains of the West. \u003cbr\u003e     By examining the nineteenth-century world in which the four\u003cbr\u003emen lived--its society, economy, politics, and culture--Dorman\u003cbr\u003esheds light on the roots of American environmentalism. He\u003cbr\u003eprovides an overview of the early decades of both resource\u003cbr\u003econservation and wilderness preservation, discussing how Marsh, Thoreau, Muir, and Powell helped define the issues that began changing the nation's attitudes toward its environment by the early twentieth century. Dorman's readings of works including Marsh's \u003ci\u003eMan and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eThe Maine Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, Muir's \u003ci\u003eThe Mountains of California\u003c\/i\u003e, and Powell's \u003ci\u003eReport on the Lands of the Arid Region\u003c\/i\u003e reveal their authors' influence on environmental thought and politics even up to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123838173424,"sku":"9780807861103","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807861103_p0.jpg?v=1763726556","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807861103","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}