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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Encounters and Legacies

Edited by Lawrence Culver, Christof Mauch, and Katie Ritson

This issue of RCC Perspectives takes a sweeping look at encounters with and legacies of the book, examining the global impact of Silent Spring over its half century of existence and considering the ways in which Rachel Carson’s ecological worldview equips us to understand and confront current and future challenges to our planet.

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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a Book That Changed the World (Version 1 PDF) | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

In 2012, the Environment & Society Portal and Mark Stoll published the virtual exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book That Changed the World.” Version 2 of this virtual exhibition [February 2020] implements the Environment & Society Portal’s new responsive exhibition template and includes minor content updates from author Mark Stoll. This page provides a link to a PDF of the original version.

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Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide

Seager, Joni

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

Carson, Rachel

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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