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050	0	4	_aQH31 _b.E947 2009
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aDavis, Jack E., _d1956- _e1
245	1	0	_aAn Everglades providence _bMarjory Stoneman Douglas and the American environmental century / _cJack E. Davis.
260			_aAthens : _bUniversity of Georgia Press, _c(c)2009.
300			_a1 online resource (xxv, 758 pages, 26. of plates) : _billustrations, map.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aEnvironmental history and the American South
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520	0		_aNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic work: The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve and boundless energy of this implacable elder won the hearts of an admiring public while confounding her opponents, growth merchants intent on having their way with the Everglades. Douglas's efforts ultimately earned her a place among a mere handful of individuals honored as a namesake of a national wilderness area. In the first comprehensive biography of Douglas, Jack E. Davis explores the 108-year life of this compelling woman. Douglas was more than an environmental activist. She was a suffragist, a lifetime feminist and supporter of the ERA, a champion of social justice, and an author of diverse literary talent. She came of age literally and professionally during the American environmental century, the century in which Americans mobilized an unprecedented popular movement to counter the equally unprecedented liberties they had taken in exploiting, polluting, and destroying the natural world. The Everglades were a living barometer of America's often tentative shift toward greater environmental responsibility. Reconstructing this larger picture, Davis recounts the shifts in Douglas's own life and her instrumental role in four important developments that contributed to Everglades protection: the making of a positive wetland image, the creation of a national park, the expanding influence of ecological science, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. In the grand but beleaguered Everglades, which Douglas came to understand is a vast natural system that supports human life, she saw nature's providence.
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600	1	0	_aDouglas, Marjory Stoneman.
650		0	_aConservationists _zFlorida _vBiography.
650		0	_aFeminists _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y20th century _vBiography.
650		0	_aNature conservation _zFlorida _zEverglades _xHistory.
650		0	_aEnvironmental degradation _zFlorida _xHistory.
650		0	_aWetland conservation _zFlorida _xHistory.
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _zFlorida _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=630614&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell