Thomas Robertson

The Malthusian Moment

Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Malthusian Moment locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in a twentieth-century revival of interest in Thomas Malthus’s theory of population growth, shedding new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the role of the federal government, urban and suburban problems, the Civil Rights and women’s movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the “New Right.”

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780813552729
• ISBN-10: 0813552729
• Artikelnr.: 34955361

Autorenporträt

Robertson, Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

Malthusianism
eugenics
and carrying capacity in the interwar period War and nature: Fairfield Osborn
William Vogt
and the birth of global ecology Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War The "Chinification" of American cities
suburbs
and wilderness Paul Ehrlich
the 1960s
and the population bomb Strange bedfellows: population politics
1968-1970 We're all in the same boat!?: The disuniting of spaceship earth Ronald Reagan
the new right
and population growth