Smokestacks and Progressives

Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951

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David Stradling

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date Australia

February 26th, 2003

Author

David Stradling

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

7 Halftones, black and white

Pages

288

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780801872501

Product ID

2211677

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