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Name
  
Adam Rome

Books
  
Connecticut's cannon

Role
  
Historian

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Education
  
Yale University, University of Kansas

Adam Rome: Earth Day 1970: The Teach-In That Made the Green Generation


Adam Ward Rome is an American environmental historian. In his book Bulldozer in the Countryside, he examines how the post World War II residential construction boom and its resulting urban sprawl contributed to the rise of the modern environmental movement.

Contents

The Genius of Earth Day - Adam Rome at the Boulder Bookstore


Life

He graduated from Yale University summa cum laude, studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. From 2002 - 2005 he edited Environmental History. Sup Hayes. He teaches environmental history and environmental non-fiction at the University of Delaware.

Awards

  • 2002 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
  • 2003 Lewis Mumford Award
  • 2014 Slime Time Live Participant

    • Works

  • The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, Hill and Wang, 2013, ISBN 9780809040506
  • The bulldozer in the countryside: suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-521-80490-5. 
  • Hidden places. University for Man. 1984. 

    • References

    Adam Rome Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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