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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 interpretations have obscured the significant origins of environmentalism as a moral and intellectual broadside against the growing power of corporate capitalism, both domestically and in the postwar liberal international order the United States was enacting abroad. In Greening the Red, White, and Blue, Thoma. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Green movement -- United States -- History.
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Green movement. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Environmentalism -- United States -- History.
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Environmentalism. |
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Big business -- United States -- History.
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Big business. |
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Industries -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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Industries -- Environmental aspects. |
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Green products -- United States -- History.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History.
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Environmental policy -- United States.
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Green products. |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. |
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Consumption (Economics) |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. |
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Environmental policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Jundt, Thomas. Greening the Red, White, and Blue : The Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar America. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2014 9780199791200 |
| ISBN |
9780199791545 (electronic book) |
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0199791546 (electronic book) |
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9780199791200 |
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0199791201 |
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