Malthusian moment : global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism /

Malthusian moment : global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism /

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Author / Creator:	Robertson, Thomas, 1967- author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2012] ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in modern science, technology and the environment Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
Subject:	Overpopulation -- History. Environmentalism -- United States -- History. Environmentalism. Overpopulation. United States. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11268378

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Varying Form of Title:	Global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism
ISBN:	9780813553351 0813553350 1283550881 9781283550888 9786613863331 6613863335 9780813552712 0813552710 9780813552729 0813552729
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-283) and index. English.
Summary:	"Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II--everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home. Weaving together the international and the domestic in creative new ways, The Malthusian Moment charts the explosion of Malthusian thinking in the United States from World War I to Earth Day 1970, then traces the just-as-surprising decline in concern beginning in the mid-1970s. In addition to offering an unconventional look at World War II and the Cold War through a balanced study of the environmental movement's most contentious theory, the book sheds new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the rise of consumption, the growth 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.""--Project Muse
Other form:	Print version: Robertson, Thomas, 1967- Malthusian moment. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2012 9780813552712
Standard no.:	10.36019/9780813553351.

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Summary:	Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II--everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home. <p>Weaving together the international and the domestic in creative new ways, The Malthusian Moment charts the explosion of Malthusian thinking in the United States from World War I to Earth Day 1970, then traces the just-as-surprising decline in concern beginning in the mid-1970s. In addition to offering an unconventional look at World War II and the Cold War through a balanced study of the environmental movement's most contentious theory, the book sheds new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the rise of consumption, the growth 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."</p>
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-283) and index.
ISBN:	9780813553351 0813553350 1283550881 9781283550888 9786613863331 6613863335 9780813552712 0813552710 9780813552729 0813552729