The gentle subversive: Rachel Carson, silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement
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Main Author: Lytle, Mark H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2007
Series:New narratives in American history
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE; One: SPRING: Sense of Wonder: Under the Sea-Wind; Two: SUMMER: Florescence: The Sea Around Us; Three: FALL: The Fullness of Life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT; Four: WINTER: The Poison Book and the Dark Season of Vindication; EPILOGUE: Rachel Carson: The Legacy; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 277 p.)
ISBN:0198038534
9780198038535

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