Smoke on the Water - Incineration At Sea Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement

Smoke on the Water traces the rise and fall of ocean incineration, showing how a transnational environmental movement tested the limits of U.S. political and economic power.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Disposable Frontier
2. The Military-Chemical-Industrial Complex
3. Translocal Activism
4. Relentless Commitment
5. Ban the Burn
6. Quitting Smoking
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Dario Fazzi is a professor of transatlantic and environmental history at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands. He is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Voice of Conscience (2016) and has published extensively on transatlantic protests, U.S. global base politics, and anti-toxics campaigns.

Summary

Smoke on the Water traces the rise and fall of ocean incineration, showing how a transnational environmental movement tested the limits of U.S. political and economic power.

Product details

• Authors: Dario Fazzi, Fazzi Dario
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231212427
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21242-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Global America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; USA, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Pollution & threats to the environment, United States of America, USA, Pollution and threats to the environment, nature; political science; history