Adam Rome
Biographic Data
| ID | 3946049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Rome |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Rome |
| SIGNATURE | ROME A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7508-0784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Past and Present: Reflections on Working in a Department of Environment and Sustainability
A growing number of environmental historians have ties to departments or institutes that focus on contemporary issues, yet scholars in the field rarely discuss careers that aren’t centered in history. How does having an affiliation with an issue-oriented department or institute change what we do? What preparation is needed to thrive in interdisciplinary communities? What are the upsides and downsides of having an academic home in environmental or…
Beyond Compliance: The Origins of Corporate Interest in Sustainability
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many U.S. business leaders resolved to go “beyond compliance” with environmental regulations. Manufacturers sought to become more eco-efficient by reducing how much waste they produced per unit of output. Some companies developed greener products. However, the new commitment to sustainability only went so far: Few executives fundamentally rethought their business models. What drove the rise of corporate concern …
DuPont and the Limits of Corporate Environmentalism
In 1989, Edgar Woolard began his tenure as chief executive of the chemical giant DuPont by calling for a new “corporate environmentalism.” DuPont has changed dramatically since then to become more environmentally sustainable, but the company still has a poor record in some areas. The sustainability push also had mixed financial consequences. Though eco-efficiencies saved DuPont billions of dollars, the effort to create more sustainable engines of…
Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Can capitalism ever truly be environmentally conscious? Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century provides a historical analysis of the relationship between business interests and environmental initiatives over the past century
Fashion Forward? Reflections on the Environmental History of Style
Fashion—the never-ending remaking of the style of goods—has become a major driver of environmental destruction. Yet environmental historians have written little about that destructiveness. This essay explores the significance of fashion in American environmental history. Fashion began to shape the American landscape in the late 1500s when growing European demand for stylish hats inspired a 300-year-hunt for beaver in the New World. In the twentie…
Green Capitalism?: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Green Capitalism: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Journal Article The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation Get access By Adam Rome. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. xii, 346 pp. Paper, $17.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 950–951, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav642 Published: 01 December 2015
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
The Genius of Earth Day
In spring 1970, millions of people took part in thousands of Earth Day teach-ins, protests, and celebrations across the United States. Yet we know remarkably little about those events. We also have not thought enough about the significance of the first Earth Day. Earth Day 1970 was not just an unprecedented demonstration of public support for environmental protection. Earth Day was a massive mobilizing effort: In many ways, Earth Day nurtured the…
The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960
Reviewed by: The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920–1960 Adam Rome (bio) The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920–1960. By Jennifer S. Light. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. x+310. $60. Jennifer Light's book is a fascinating and suggestive account of the influence of ecology and natural-resource management on academic urbanists, city planners,…
Nature Wars, Culture Wars: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era
In the decades around 1900, native-born Americans and immigrants fought a variety of battles about environmental issues. Those battles had important consequences. The critique of immigrants also reveals that native-born Americans had more complicated views about nature than environmental historians have acknowledged. Though a back-to-nature impulse was a defining characteristic of the Progressive Era, the complaints about immigrants make clear th…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
Political Hermaphrodites’: Gender and Environmental Reform in Progressive America
In the decades around 1900, middle-class women were indispensable in every environmental cause in the United States, and they often justified their activism as an extension of traditionally feminine responsibilities. The prominence of women as advocates of environmental reform posed a challenge for men who sought to stop pollution, conserve natural resources, and preserve wild places and creatures. How could they make their case without losing th…
What’s Next for Environmental History
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Give Earth a Chance: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties
Journal Article "Give Earth a Chance": The Environmental Movement and the Sixties Get access Adam Rome Adam Rome associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and editor of Environmental History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 525–554, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659443 Published: 01 September 2003
What Really Matters in History? Environmental Perspectives on Modern America
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. The Bulldozer in the Countryside was the first scholarly work to analyz…
William Whyte, Open Space, and Environmental Activism
In the late 1950s and early 1960s a variety of Americans began to protest the loss of open space to suburban sprawl. The critics of sprawl—William Whyte, most notably—argued that open space had great aesthetic, social, and ecological value. To preserve open space, activists lobbied for the acquisition of public land and touted land‐saving forms of development. Although both efforts brought important successes, both proved inadequate. Even so, the…
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective by Joel A. Tarr
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 781 on a larger scale. From the end of the 1920s, for example, efforts were intensified to recruit new customers and to propagate new forms of electricity use (electric heat)—to increase the rate of utili zation of the output capacities (p. 235). In this respect, the results of Gilson’s study represent a critical argument against Thomas P. Hughes’s opinion in Networks of Power (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univers…
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning. Mark Luccarelli
The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Journal Article The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation Get access By Adam Rome. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. xii, 346 pp. Paper, $17.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 950–951, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav642 Published: 01 December 2015
Give Earth a Chance: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties
Journal Article "Give Earth a Chance": The Environmental Movement and the Sixties Get access Adam Rome Adam Rome associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and editor of Environmental History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 525–554, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659443 Published: 01 September 2003
DuPont and the Limits of Corporate Environmentalism
In 1989, Edgar Woolard began his tenure as chief executive of the chemical giant DuPont by calling for a new “corporate environmentalism.” DuPont has changed dramatically since then to become more environmentally sustainable, but the company still has a poor record in some areas. The sustainability push also had mixed financial consequences. Though eco-efficiencies saved DuPont billions of dollars, the effort to create more sustainable engines of…
Political Hermaphrodites’: Gender and Environmental Reform in Progressive America
In the decades around 1900, middle-class women were indispensable in every environmental cause in the United States, and they often justified their activism as an extension of traditionally feminine responsibilities. The prominence of women as advocates of environmental reform posed a challenge for men who sought to stop pollution, conserve natural resources, and preserve wild places and creatures. How could they make their case without losing th…
Coming to Terms with Pollution: The Language of Environmental Reform, 1865–1915
The Genius of Earth Day
In spring 1970, millions of people took part in thousands of Earth Day teach-ins, protests, and celebrations across the United States. Yet we know remarkably little about those events. We also have not thought enough about the significance of the first Earth Day. Earth Day 1970 was not just an unprecedented demonstration of public support for environmental protection. Earth Day was a massive mobilizing effort: In many ways, Earth Day nurtured the…
Nature Wars, Culture Wars: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era
In the decades around 1900, native-born Americans and immigrants fought a variety of battles about environmental issues. Those battles had important consequences. The critique of immigrants also reveals that native-born Americans had more complicated views about nature than environmental historians have acknowledged. Though a back-to-nature impulse was a defining characteristic of the Progressive Era, the complaints about immigrants make clear th…
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Beyond Compliance: The Origins of Corporate Interest in Sustainability
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many U.S. business leaders resolved to go “beyond compliance” with environmental regulations. Manufacturers sought to become more eco-efficient by reducing how much waste they produced per unit of output. Some companies developed greener products. However, the new commitment to sustainability only went so far: Few executives fundamentally rethought their business models. What drove the rise of corporate concern …
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Fashion Forward? Reflections on the Environmental History of Style
Fashion—the never-ending remaking of the style of goods—has become a major driver of environmental destruction. Yet environmental historians have written little about that destructiveness. This essay explores the significance of fashion in American environmental history. Fashion began to shape the American landscape in the late 1500s when growing European demand for stylish hats inspired a 300-year-hunt for beaver in the New World. In the twentie…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
What Really Matters in History? Environmental Perspectives on Modern America
William Whyte, Open Space, and Environmental Activism
In the late 1950s and early 1960s a variety of Americans began to protest the loss of open space to suburban sprawl. The critics of sprawl—William Whyte, most notably—argued that open space had great aesthetic, social, and ecological value. To preserve open space, activists lobbied for the acquisition of public land and touted land‐saving forms of development. Although both efforts brought important successes, both proved inadequate. Even so, the…
Building on the Land: Toward an Environmental History of Residential Development in American Cities and Suburbs, 1870-1990
Building on the Land: Toward an Environmental History of Residential Development in American Cities and Suburbs, 1870-1990
Coming to Terms with Pollution: The Language of Environmental Reform, 1865–1915
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective by Joel A. Tarr
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 781 on a larger scale. From the end of the 1920s, for example, efforts were intensified to recruit new customers and to propagate new forms of electricity use (electric heat)—to increase the rate of utili zation of the output capacities (p. 235). In this respect, the results of Gilson’s study represent a critical argument against Thomas P. Hughes’s opinion in Networks of Power (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univers…
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning. Mark Luccarelli
William Whyte, Open Space, and Environmental Activism
In the late 1950s and early 1960s a variety of Americans began to protest the loss of open space to suburban sprawl. The critics of sprawl—William Whyte, most notably—argued that open space had great aesthetic, social, and ecological value. To preserve open space, activists lobbied for the acquisition of public land and touted land‐saving forms of development. Although both efforts brought important successes, both proved inadequate. Even so, the…
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. The Bulldozer in the Countryside was the first scholarly work to analyz…
What Really Matters in History? Environmental Perspectives on Modern America
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Give Earth a Chance: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties
Journal Article "Give Earth a Chance": The Environmental Movement and the Sixties Get access Adam Rome Adam Rome associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and editor of Environmental History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 525–554, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659443 Published: 01 September 2003
What’s Next for Environmental History
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Political Hermaphrodites’: Gender and Environmental Reform in Progressive America
In the decades around 1900, middle-class women were indispensable in every environmental cause in the United States, and they often justified their activism as an extension of traditionally feminine responsibilities. The prominence of women as advocates of environmental reform posed a challenge for men who sought to stop pollution, conserve natural resources, and preserve wild places and creatures. How could they make their case without losing th…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
Nature Wars, Culture Wars: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era
In the decades around 1900, native-born Americans and immigrants fought a variety of battles about environmental issues. Those battles had important consequences. The critique of immigrants also reveals that native-born Americans had more complicated views about nature than environmental historians have acknowledged. Though a back-to-nature impulse was a defining characteristic of the Progressive Era, the complaints about immigrants make clear th…
The Genius of Earth Day
In spring 1970, millions of people took part in thousands of Earth Day teach-ins, protests, and celebrations across the United States. Yet we know remarkably little about those events. We also have not thought enough about the significance of the first Earth Day. Earth Day 1970 was not just an unprecedented demonstration of public support for environmental protection. Earth Day was a massive mobilizing effort: In many ways, Earth Day nurtured the…
The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960
Reviewed by: The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920–1960 Adam Rome (bio) The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920–1960. By Jennifer S. Light. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. x+310. $60. Jennifer Light's book is a fascinating and suggestive account of the influence of ecology and natural-resource management on academic urbanists, city planners,…
The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Journal Article The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation Get access By Adam Rome. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. xii, 346 pp. Paper, $17.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 950–951, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav642 Published: 01 December 2015
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Green Capitalism?: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Green Capitalism: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Can capitalism ever truly be environmentally conscious? Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century provides a historical analysis of the relationship between business interests and environmental initiatives over the past century
Fashion Forward? Reflections on the Environmental History of Style
Fashion—the never-ending remaking of the style of goods—has become a major driver of environmental destruction. Yet environmental historians have written little about that destructiveness. This essay explores the significance of fashion in American environmental history. Fashion began to shape the American landscape in the late 1500s when growing European demand for stylish hats inspired a 300-year-hunt for beaver in the New World. In the twentie…
DuPont and the Limits of Corporate Environmentalism
In 1989, Edgar Woolard began his tenure as chief executive of the chemical giant DuPont by calling for a new “corporate environmentalism.” DuPont has changed dramatically since then to become more environmentally sustainable, but the company still has a poor record in some areas. The sustainability push also had mixed financial consequences. Though eco-efficiencies saved DuPont billions of dollars, the effort to create more sustainable engines of…
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