Greening the Red, White, and Blue : the Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar America.

Greening the Red, White, and Blue : the Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar America.

In popular imagination, environmentalism is often linked to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the political activism of the 1960s and '70s that moved increasing numbers of Americans to insist on a better quality of life-open spaces, clean air and water, beautification campaigns. But these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jundt, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
Subjects:
Green movement > United States > History.
Environmentalism > United States > History.
Big business > United States > History.
Industries > Environmental aspects > United States.
Green products > United States > History.
Consumption (Economics) > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Environmental policy > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Big business
Consumption (Economics) > Environmental aspects
Environmental policy
Environmentalism
Green movement
Green products
Industries > Environmental aspects
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Greening the Red, White, and Blue; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Greening the Red, White, and Blue; Introduction; PART ONEA NEW ERA; 1 "Sons of Bitches"; 2 Green Consumption in a Dangerous World; 3 Downwinders; 4 Chemicals and Romance; PART TWOA NEW RESPONSE; 5 "A Ground Swell of Public Indignation"; 6 The "New" Conservation; 7 "Striking Back at the Goddam Sons-of-Bitches"; 8 Green Consumerism Goes Mainstream; Conclusion; Notes; INDEX.

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