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dc.contributor.advisorBruggeman, Seth C., 1975-
dc.creatorFriedman, Gail
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-26T18:25:59Z
dc.date.available2020-10-26T18:25:59Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.other965642582
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1244
dc.description.abstractThis thesis tells the previously untold story of how environmental activists in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the 1980s waged a nearly decade-long and ultimately losing battle against a plan to pump water from the free-flowing Delaware River. As a case study of grassroots community activism during the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan, the struggle known locally as “Dump the Pump” and spearheaded by a nonprofit organization called Del-AWARE supports and provides a regional take on recent scholarship that has illuminated the vibrant underlying dynamics of local civic engagement occurring amid the overshadowing political conservatism of the Reagan years. Also a case study in public history, this thesis demonstrates how collective historical memory fueled not only Del-AWARE’s protracted struggle, but its enduring legacy in public policy and community life. It concludes with suggestions for preserving the history of Del-AWARE before it is lost forever.
dc.format.extent64 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
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dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectPublic Policy
dc.subjectEnvironmental Studies
dc.subjectBucks County
dc.subjectPennsylvania
dc.subjectCommunity Activism
dc.subjectDelaware River
dc.subjectDel-aware Unlimited
dc.subjectEnvironmentalism
dc.subjectPublic History
dc.titleRemembering Del-Aware: Community Activism and Eco-Politics in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the Age of Reagan
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dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberLowe, Hilary Iris
dc.description.departmentHistory
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1226
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