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Introduction | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Overview of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll. This exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
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The Power of a Book | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 1 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
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Industrial and Agricultural Interests Fight Back | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 3 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
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The Personal Attacks on Rachel Carson as a Woman Scientist | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 4 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
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Silent Spring in Popular Culture | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 5 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
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Humans, Animals, and Nature: Ideas of a Natural and Harmonious (Co-)Existence | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
In the nineteenth century, there was much debate about the question of which way of living could be regarded as “natural.” Caricatures on vegetarianism mock ideas of the “natural” relationship between animal and man, and draft utopian as well as dystopian visions of a vegetarian future.
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Meat Ban: Pleasure and Pain, Asceticism, and Hypocrisy | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
Since vegetarian societies began to spread and organize events in Germany, their missionary attitude and their supposed moral superiority have been ridiculed. Caricatures mocked the rigid rules of the vegetarians and their societies, accusing them of hypocrisy or of reinterpreting the self-imposed prohibitions according to their own needs and weaknesses.
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Silent Spring on Television | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 6 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.