In Defence of Home Places

Mark R. Leeming writes and researches in Nova Scotia. He has published on the history of environmental protest music and anti-nuclear activism.

... Leeming has produced an important work that will require environmental historians and others to rethink their approach to the growth of modern environmentalism in Canada. The shift in focus away from the big organizations and from the national to the provincial level, combined with a meticulous mapping out of linkages between myriad groups, culminates in a significant contribution to the burgeoning historiography on environmentalism.- Mark McLaughlin, Department of History & the Canadian-American Center, University of Maine (NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment) In Defense of Home Places is a little book that encourages us to think big … The appearance of 'Home Places' in the title is telling; it speaks to the concept of environmental localism, that jealous love of place, the intimate, sensory, psycho-social relationship with specific settings that so often underlies environmental activism … In Defense of Home Places posits the notion that there is no single history of environmentalism in Atlantic Canada … Leeming's admirable study has given us Nova Scotia's experience. It represents a friendly challenge to others to unearth the remaining Atlantic Canadian experiences. - Edward MacDonald, University of Prince Edward Island (Acadiensis)

• Foreword: Environmental Action and the Question of Scale / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 At Home and Abroad: The Genesis of Environmentalism2 The Two MECs: Anti-Nuclear Environmentalism3 Power from the People: The Anti-Chemical Campaigns4 Two Environmentalisms: Uranium and Radicalism5 Watermelons and Market Greens: Legacies of Early ActivismNotesBibliographyIndex