Greening the Red, White, and Blue :: the Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar America.

In popular imagination, environmentalism is often linked to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the political activism of the 1960s and '70s that moved increasing numbers of Americans to insist on a better quality of life-open spaces, clean air and water, beautification campaigns. But these...

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1. Verfasser: Jundt, Thomas
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:In popular imagination, environmentalism is often linked to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the political activism of the 1960s and '70s that moved increasing numbers of Americans to insist on a better quality of life-open spaces, clean air and water, beautification campaigns. But these interpretations have obscured the significant origins of environmentalism as a moral and intellectual broadside against the growing power of corporate capitalism, both domestically and in the postwar liberal international order the United States was enacting abroad. In Greening the Red, White, and Blue, Thoma.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (321 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199791545
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