Carson's Silent Spring - A Reader's Guide

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.

About the author

Joni Seager is Professor and Chair of Global Studies at Bentley University, Boston, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Joni Seager
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9781441117861
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-1786-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Reader's Guides; Reader's Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Familie und Gesundheit, HEALTH & FITNESS / Safety, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - U.S.