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The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Studies in Environment and History) (1st Edition) by Adam (Pennsylvania State University) Rome, Adam Ward Rome Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-521-80490-6 / 0521804906 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-80490-5 / 9780521804905 Modern American environmentalism owes much to such predecessors as Henry Thoreau, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt. But it owes much more, suggests historian Adam Rome, to the sprawling suburbs of the postwar era, when great sections of the country fell under the bulldozer to make way for the vaunt |