Brian Allen Drake
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Allen Drake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Drake |
| SIGNATURE | DRAKE B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Global Environmental Strategies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Lauritz Larson, Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America
Unredeemed Land
Reviewed by: Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin Brian Allen Drake (bio) Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. By Erin Stewart Mauldin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 256. Cloth, $35.00.) About three years ago, I began writing a small piece for a book honoring my doctoral adviser Donald Worster. In …
War Stuff
War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War. By Joan E. Cashin. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xii, 258 pp. Paper, $24.99.) Brian Allen Drake Brian Allen Drake University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
Stephen Haycox. Battleground Alaska
Even by the high standards of the American West, Alaska has a contentious relationship with the federal government. No other state, argues Stephen Haycox, has been more “antistatist” (15) by temperament and tradition than the forty-ninth, and in Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America’s Last Wilderness he sets out to explain why. The answer involves not only an understanding of Alaska’s path to statehood, but also an appreciation o…
Loving Nature, Fearing the State
A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State , right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In this wide-ranging history, Drake explores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitm…
Catlin’s Lament
Book Review| October 01 2011 Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. By John Hausdoerffer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi + 184 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $34.95 (cloth). Brian Allen Drake Brian Allen Drake Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2011) 31 (1): 8…
The Skeptical Environmentalist
For much of American history, environmental protection and federal power have been two peas in a pod. This was especially true after World War II, as economic prosperity created a vast middle class that demanded environmental “beauty, health and permanence” (in Samuel Hays's words) as an indispensable part of its consumer lifestyle and expected government to secure them. The result was the birth, in Adam Rome's phrase, of the “environmental manag…
The Skeptical Environmentalist
For much of American history, environmental protection and federal power have been two peas in a pod. This was especially true after World War II, as economic prosperity created a vast middle class that demanded environmental “beauty, health and permanence” (in Samuel Hays's words) as an indispensable part of its consumer lifestyle and expected government to secure them. The result was the birth, in Adam Rome's phrase, of the “environmental manag…
The Skeptical Environmentalist
For much of American history, environmental protection and federal power have been two peas in a pod. This was especially true after World War II, as economic prosperity created a vast middle class that demanded environmental “beauty, health and permanence” (in Samuel Hays's words) as an indispensable part of its consumer lifestyle and expected government to secure them. The result was the birth, in Adam Rome's phrase, of the “environmental manag…
Catlin’s Lament
Book Review| October 01 2011 Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. By John Hausdoerffer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi + 184 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $34.95 (cloth). Brian Allen Drake Brian Allen Drake Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2011) 31 (1): 8…
Loving Nature, Fearing the State
A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State , right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In this wide-ranging history, Drake explores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitm…
Stephen Haycox. Battleground Alaska
Even by the high standards of the American West, Alaska has a contentious relationship with the federal government. No other state, argues Stephen Haycox, has been more “antistatist” (15) by temperament and tradition than the forty-ninth, and in Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America’s Last Wilderness he sets out to explain why. The answer involves not only an understanding of Alaska’s path to statehood, but also an appreciation o…
War Stuff
War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War. By Joan E. Cashin. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xii, 258 pp. Paper, $24.99.) Brian Allen Drake Brian Allen Drake University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
Unredeemed Land
Reviewed by: Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin Brian Allen Drake (bio) Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. By Erin Stewart Mauldin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 256. Cloth, $35.00.) About three years ago, I began writing a small piece for a book honoring my doctoral adviser Donald Worster. In …
John Lauritz Larson, Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)