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Before Earth Day : the origins of American environmental law, 1945-1970
Title:
Before Earth Day : the origins of American environmental law, 1945-1970
Author:
Brooks, Karl Boyd.
ISBN:
9780700616275
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2009.
Physical Description:
xxii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
"To think like an environmental lawyer" : making American environmental law throughout the postwar era -- Seed-time : planting environmental law in the postwar years -- Fertilization : environmental lawmaking in the postwar administrative state -- Harvest home : environmental lawmaking and postwar federalism -- The people out of doors : popularizing postwar environmental law -- Across the new frontier : nationalizing environmental law -- From the files of Bruce Bowler, postwar environmental lawyer -- "A field so varied and rapidly changing" : American law schools discover environmental law.