Full Product Details
Author: Michele Stenehjem Gerber
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780803271012
ISBN 10: 0803271018
Pages: 375
Publication Date: 01 March 2002
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
"Praise for the first edition: ""On the Home Front should be read by everyone who cares about public policy and the environmental issues that dominate this post-modern world.""--Western Historical Quarterly. ""[Gerber's] skill in reconstructing the story of Hanford's environmental ravages has given us a book that can both alarm and instruct.""--Journal of American History. ""[Declassified documents] reveal a five-decade pattern of environmental insult that is breathtaking in its scope and pervasiveness... The story [Gerber] tells grips us: the sticky web of strategic choices involving Hanford and its purposes has ensnared every inhabitant ... of the Pacific Northwest for more than half a century.""--Oregon Historical Quarterly"
Praise for the first edition: On the Home Front should be read by everyone who cares about public policy and the environmental issues that dominate this post-modern world. --Western Historical Quarterly. [Gerber's] skill in reconstructing the story of Hanford's environmental ravages has given us a book that can both alarm and instruct. --Journal of American History. [Declassified documents] reveal a five-decade pattern of environmental insult that is breathtaking in its scope and pervasiveness... The story [Gerber] tells grips us: the sticky web of strategic choices involving Hanford and its purposes has ensnared every inhabitant ... of the Pacific Northwest for more than half a century. --Oregon Historical Quarterly
Praise for the first edition: On the Home Front should be read by everyone who cares about public policy and the environmental issues that dominate this post-modern world. - Western Historical Quarterly. [Gerber's] skill in reconstructing the story of Hanford's environmental ravages has given us a book that can both alarm and instruct. - Journal of American History. [Declassified documents] reveal a five-decade pattern of environmental insult that is breathtaking in its scope and pervasiveness... The story [Gerber] tells grips us: the sticky web of strategic choices involving Hanford and its purposes has ensnared every inhabitant... of the Pacific Northwest for more than half a century. - Oregon Historical Quarterly
Author Information
Michele Stenehjem Gerber works in the Public Information Office of Fluor Hanford, Inc. She has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Declassification and has served as a consultant to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Hanford Cultural Resources Management Plan.
