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

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

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.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book that Changed the World

This virtual exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as well as the book’s legacy in popular culture, music, literature, and the arts.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2012 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Mark Stoll

About the author

Stoll, Mark
Stoll, Mark

Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

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Mark Stoll is professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and is working on an environmental history of capitalism. Stoll is author of two books, Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015), and Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (1997), as well as chapters on the influence of religion on Rachel Carson and E. O. Wilson. He has edited “Nature and Human Societies,” a book series for ABC-Clio on world environmental history, and with Dianne Glave co-edited “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History (2006).

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Exhibition Overview
Introduction
The Power of a Book
The US Government Responds
Industrial and Agricultural Interests Fight Back
Personal Attacks on Rachel Carson
Silent Spring, an International Best Seller
Silent Spring on Television
Silent Spring in Popular Culture
Europe's Response
Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Silent Spring in Literature and the Arts
About the Exhibition
Further Reading

Copyright Information

Copyright Information

“Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book that Changed the World” was created by Mark Stoll (2020, 2012) under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license. This refers only to the text and does not include image rights. Please click on an image to view its individual rights status. Thumbnails of the following images appear on the exhibition landing page:

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book that Changed the World

This virtual exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as well as the book’s legacy in popular culture, music, literature, and the arts.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2012 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Mark Stoll

About the author

Stoll, Mark
Stoll, Mark

Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

Show more

Mark Stoll is professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and is working on an environmental history of capitalism. Stoll is author of two books, Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015), and Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (1997), as well as chapters on the influence of religion on Rachel Carson and E. O. Wilson. He has edited “Nature and Human Societies,” a book series for ABC-Clio on world environmental history, and with Dianne Glave co-edited “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History (2006).

Browse the exhibition

Exhibition Overview
Introduction
The Power of a Book
The US Government Responds
Industrial and Agricultural Interests Fight Back
Personal Attacks on Rachel Carson
Silent Spring, an International Best Seller
Silent Spring on Television
Silent Spring in Popular Culture
Europe's Response
Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Silent Spring in Literature and the Arts
About the Exhibition
Further Reading
The Environment & Society Portal is a project of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, an institute founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Read more about the Portal in English and in German.