Adam Rome

Adam Ward Rome is an American environmental historian. In his book , 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.

Life[]

Rome 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.^[1] He is a professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo.

Awards[]

• 2002 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• 2003 Lewis Mumford Award

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. Adam Rome.
• Hidden places. University for Man. 1984.

References[]

External links[]

• ""Give Earth a Chance": The Environmental Movement and the Sixties", Journal of American History, September 2003
• "Earth Day 1970: Gaylord Nelson and the Making of the First Environmental Generation", University of Virginia, October 23, 2009
• "The 22nd annual Prairie Festival — Celebrating 25 Years", The Land Institute
• Stephen J. Whitfield (2004). A companion to 20th-century America. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-21100-6.

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