Adam Rome
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American historian
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#4704
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#6502
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#1649
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Environmental History
#14
World Rank
#15
Historical Rank
#7
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Adam Rome's Degrees
- PhD History University of Kansas
- Masters History University of Kansas
Why Is Adam Rome Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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.
Adam Rome's Published Works
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Published Works
- A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1997) (341)
- "Give Earth a Chance": The Environmental Movement and the Sixties (2003) (157)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001) (123)
- ‘Political Hermaphrodites’: Gender and Environmental Reform in Progressive America (2006) (37)
- Coming to Terms with Pollution: The Language of Environmental Reform, 1865–1915 (1996) (32)
- The Genius of Earth Day (2010) (28)
- The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (2013) (27)
- Nature Wars, Culture Wars: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era (2008) (26)
- Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century (2017) (14)
- WILLIAM WHYTE, OPEN SPACE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM (1998) (13)
- Sustainability: The launch of Spaceship Earth (2015) (13)
- Building on the Land (1994) (12)
- What’s Next for Environmental History? (2005) (12)
- Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (2002) (10)
- What Really Matters in History? Environmental Perspectives on Modern America (2002) (8)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Conclusion (2001) (8)
- DuPont and the Limits of Corporate Environmentalism (2019) (6)
- Conservation, Preservation, and Environmental Activism: A Survey of the Historical Literature (2003) (5)
- Beyond Compliance: The Origins of Corporate Interest in Sustainability (2020) (4)
- Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See (2007) (3)
- Chapter 1. The Ecology of Commerce: Environmental History and the Challenge of Building a Sustainable Economy (2017) (3)
- Chapter 2. Shades of Green: A Business- History Perspective on Eco- Capitalism (2017) (3)
- Crude Reality (2018) (2)
- Chapter 7. Plastic Six- Pack Rings: The Business and Politics of an Environmental Problem (2017) (1)
- Book Review:Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning Mark Luccarelli (1997) (1)
- Chapter 10. Private Companies and the Recycling of Household Waste in West Germany, 1965–1990 (2017) (1)
- Chapter 13. Driving Change: The Winding Road to Greener Automobiles (2017) (1)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Open Space: The First Protests against the Bulldozed Landscape (2001) (1)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Where Not to Build: The Campaigns to Protect Wetlands, Hillsides, and Floodplains (2001) (1)
- Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of an Ecostar: Green Technology Innovation and Marketing as Regulatory Obstruction (2017) (1)
- Fashion Forward? Reflections on the Environmental History of Style (2018) (1)
- What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History? (2005) (1)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Septic-Tank Suburbia: The Problem of Waste Disposal at the Metropolitan Fringe (2001) (1)
- Chapter 11. Kill-a-Watt: The Greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s (2017) (0)
- Chapter 5. “Constructive and Not Destructive Development”: Permanent Uses of Resources in the American South (2017) (0)
- From the Editor (2002) (0)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: From the Solar House to the All-Electric Home: The Postwar Debates over Heating and Cooling (2001) (0)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Toward a Land Ethic: The Quiet Revolution in Land-Use Regulation (2001) (0)
- The bitter brawl over humanity's future. (2018) (0)
- Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis. Edited by Andrew Hurley. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, for the Missouri Historical Society Press, 1997. xiv + 320 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth $29, 95, paper $19.95 (1997) (0)
- Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (2015) (0)
- The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920–1960 (review) (2010) (0)
- Past and Present: Reflections on Working in a Department of Environment and Sustainability (2023) (0)
- From the Editor (2004) (0)
- From the Editor (2005) (0)
- From the Editor (2002) (0)
- Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. By David Stradling. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $42.50 (2000) (0)
- The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective by Joel A. Tarr (1997) (0)
- City Lights: Illuminating the American Night (review) (2003) (0)
- From the Editor (2005) (0)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Plate section (2001) (0)
- From the Editor (2004) (0)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Introduction (2001) (0)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Water, Soil, and Wildlife: The Federal Critiques of Tract-House Development (2001) (0)
- Summer reads: Darwin’s dilemma on sexual selection, ecology versus empire, and the dark side of the greater good (2018) (0)
- From the Editor (1997) (0)
- From the Editor (2003) (0)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Levitt's Progress: The Rise of the Suburban-Industrial Complex (2001) (0)
- The bitter brawl over humanity’s future (2018) (0)
- From the Editor (2002) (0)
- From the Editor (2003) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Role of Businesses in Constructing Systems of Environmental Governance (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Wells, Car Country: An Environmental History, by Adam Rome (2014) (0)
- From the Editor (2003) (0)
- What should we remember : A global poll among environmental historians (2013) (0)
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Selected Bibliography (2001) (0)
- Chapter 12. Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy (2017) (0)
- From the Editor (1998) (0)
- From the editor (2005) (0)
- Chapter 6. Utilities as Conservationists? Th e Paradox of Electrification During the Progressive Era in North America (2017) (0)
- From the Editor (2004) (0)
- From the Editor (2005) (0)
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