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Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide: Reader's Guides

Autor Professor Joni Seager
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2014
Silent Spring is a watershed moment in the history of environmentalism, credited with launching the modern environmental movement. In synthesizing a jumble of scientific and medical information into a coherent argument, Carson successfully challenged major chemical industries and the idea that modern societies could and should exert mastery over nature at any cost. Her critique remains salient today.This book provides the first in-depth analysis, contextualisation and overview of Silent Spring, a critical work in the history of environmentalism, surveying its lasting impact on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441130662
ISBN-10: 1441130667
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Reader's Guides

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

It locates Silent Spring and Carson in the political and environmental milieu of the period

Notă biografică

Joni Seager is Professor and Chair of Global Studies at Bentley University, Boston, USA. She is a feminist geographer and environmentalist.

Cuprins

Introducing Silent Spring: Hitchcock, Bees, and the Syrian Civil War1. Getting to Silent Spring2. The Post-War Machine in the Garden3. Needless Havoc: Carson's Case Against Pesticides4. One in Every Four5. Alternatives6. Responses to Silent SpringNotesSources for Further Reading & ResearchBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

29 years ago the Bhopal tragedy.showed how right Rachel Carson was. Now the 'elixirs of death' come in new forms. Joni Seager's [book] is a vital and timely reminder of Rachel Carson's wake up call to humanity that a chemical war can never be won.
Pacy, thought-provoking and challenging.This will become a set text for environmentalists and students of the natural world, but I'd urge that anyone interested in understanding the importance of Carson's life and vital insight, and its relevance to the world 50 years on, should read Joni Seager's book.
Silent Spring was a blockbuster that changed the world. Today, Carson's message has been politicized, misinterpreted and ignored. Joni Seager brilliantly explicates the times in which Carson wrote and shows why Silent Spring remains an essential text for the 21st century.