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16-09-2009
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The University of Chicago Press
Auteur(s)
Harriet Ritvo
The Dawn of Green
Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
Harriet Ritvo
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Located
in
the
heart
of
England’s
Lake
District,
the
placid
waters
of
Thirlmere
seem
to
be
the
embodiment
of
pastoral
beauty.
But
under
their
calm
surface
lurks
the
legacy
of
a
nineteenth-century
conflict
that
pitted
industrial
progress
against
natural
conservation—and
helped
launch
the
environmental
movement
as
we
know
it.
Purchased
by
the
city
of
Manchester
in
the
1870s,
Thirlmere
was
dammed
and
converted
into
a
reservoir,
its
water
piped
one
hundred
miles
south
to
the
burgeoning
industrial
city
and
its
workforce.
This
feat
of
civil
engineering—and
of
natural
resource
diversion—inspired
one
of
the
first
environmental
struggles
of
modern
times.
The
Dawn
of
Green
re-creates
the
battle
for
Thirlmere
and
the
clashes
between
conservationists
who
wished
to
preserve
the
lake
and
developers
eager
to
supply
the
needs
of
a
growing
urban
population.
Bringing
to
vivid
life
the
colorful
and
strong-minded
characters
who
populated
both
sides
of
the
debate,
noted
historian
Harriet
Ritvo
revisits
notions
of
the
natural
promulgated
by
romantic
poets,
recreationists,
resource
managers,
and
industrial
developers
to
establish
Thirlmere
as
the
template
for
subsequent—and
continuing—environmental struggles.
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