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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
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Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide
Carson’s Silent Spring: A Reader’s Guide provides an in-depth analysis and contextualization of Silent Spring. It also surveys the lasting impact the text has had on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
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Hausmüll: Abfall und Gesellschaft in Westdeutschland 1945–1990
Hausmüll documents the rise of a “new” environmental problem in post-war Germany, that of an increase in consumption and consequently a dramatic increase in waste.
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Umwelt als Ressource: Die sächsische Papierindustrie 1850–1930
Umwelt als Ressource highlights the interaction and co-evolution of modern industry and the environment, using the example of the German paper industry in Saxony.
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Zivilgesellschaft und Protest: Eine Geschichte der Naturschutz- und Umweltbewegung in Bayern 1945–1980
Through examining topics of nuclear energy and tourism, Zivilgesellschaft und Protest portrays the transitions towards radicalism in the Bavarian environmental movement from the end of the Second World War to the late 1970s.
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The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
A grippingly perceptive tale of changing social attitudes and scientific practices.
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The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
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International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.
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Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants, and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.