Adam Rome

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.

Life

He graduated from Yale University summa cum laude, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and University of Kansas with a Ph.D. From 2002 - 2005 he edited Environmental History.^[1] He teaches at Pennsylvania State University.^[2]

Awards

• 2002 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• 2003 Lewis Mumford Award

Works

• New City, New Country: Environmental Reform and the Emergence of Modern America. Cambridge University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-87078-8. 
• The bulldozer in the countryside: suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-521-80490-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=XzlxDWjVHXoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Adam+Rome&ei=P832SrKbNYTWNNnVoZMF#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Hidden places. University for Man. 1984. 

Criticism

• "Review: City Lights: Illuminating the American Night", Technology and Culture, Volume 44, Number 4, October 2003, pp. 827-828

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 Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism", Technology and Culture, Zachary M. Schrag, Volume 43, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 802-803
• "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. http://books.google.com/books?id=64LlapmSgIwC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=Adam+Rome&source=bl&ots=PXXRDgLuKX&sig=oml_r2Z4Xikj5dNGFEGCUNTjxNY&hl=en&ei=5db2So_GGI_V8AazxaHzCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBjgy#v=onepage&q=Adam%20Rome&f=false.