Razing Kids - Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey C. Sanders is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Washington State University. He is the author of Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia (2010). Klappentext Analyzing the linked histories of childhood, the West, and the environment after World War II, Razing Kids argues that in wartime mobilization, post-war defense, public health, anti-poverty programs, and environmental activism, adults consistently paired youth and environment with their visions of the social and environmental good. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Bulldozer in the playground; 1. 'They build strong children with well bodies': building child-centered landscapes; 2. 'From bomb to bone': youth bodies and postwar ecology; 3. 'Saving trees, land, and boys': juveniles, nature, and the carceral state; 4. In loco parentis: runaways and 'the right to the city'; 5. 'Save the family farm': child labor, pesticides, and green consumerism; Epilogue: Kids today.

Product details

• Authors: Sanders Jeffrey C. Sanders, Jeffrey C Sanders, Jeffrey C. Sanders, Jeffrey C. (Washington State University) Sanders
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781107527546
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52754-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, The environment, Social and cultural history, Science / Environmental Science, History of the Americas