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  • Whiteness in Plain View
    Chad Montrie
    An examination of White Minnesotans’ efforts to exclude African Americans from local communities, jobs, and housing across the state and through the decades.Minnesota is a paradox. Widely seen as a progressive stronghold of the Midwest, the state also has some of the greatest racial disparities in the nation. Those disparities have their roots in Minnesota’s earliest days as a ...
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    17,34 €

  • A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States
    Chad Montrie
    This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven by the increased leisure and wealth of an educated middle class. Chad Mo...
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    60,44 €

  • Making a Living
    Chad Montrie
    In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans’ evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers’ rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile “mill girls” in antebellum New England, plantation s...
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    41,76 €

  • To Save the Land and People
    Chad Montrie
    Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region’s chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth ...
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    54,50 €