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Author:   Joachim Radkau (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Publisher:   Polity Press
Imprint:   Polity Press
ISBN:  

9780745662176

ISBN 10:   074566217
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   06 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition vii Acknowledgements xiv Introduction: The Green Chameleon 1 One Environmentalism before the Environmental Movement 11 1 Good Mother Nature and the ?Appalling Wood Shortage?: The Twin Face of Nature in the Decline of the Commons 11 2 Nature in Need of Protection and Nature as Healing Power: Environmental Activism in the ?Nervous Age? 24 3 ?The Desert Threatens?: Environmental Fears in the Age of Crisis ? the New Deal and Nazi Germany 46 4 Think Big! A Charismatic Intermezzo on the Olympian Heights 61 Two The Great Chain Reaction: The ?Ecological Revolution? in and around 1970 79 Three Networked Thinking and Practical Priorities: An Endless Interplay 114 1 On the Ecology of Ecologism 121 2 Water and the Atom 137 3 Changing Priorities: The Movement in Motion 162 Four Charismatics and Ecocrats 182 1 Spiritual Quest and Charismatic Moments 182 2 Ten Heroines Embodying Tensions in the Movement 201 3 Institutionalization, Routinization, Revitalization 237 Five A Friend?Enemy or Win-Win Scenario? 259 1 From Nuclear Power to the Spotted Owl 259 2 Violence and the Green Conscience 288 3 Ecology and Economics: The Challenge of Conceptual Analogy 320 Six Ecology and the Historic Turn of 1990: From Social Justice to Climate Justice? 339 Conclusion: The Dialectic of Green Enlightenment 425 Notes 432 Index 517

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''Radkau?s new book is by far the finest informative read available on the environmental movement in its many diverse varieties from its modern beginnings until now, and the women and men whose passions inspired it. Protests and politics, activism and reaction, love of nature and hatred of pollutionNall are shown with a clarity that makes sense to the reader. This is the compelling global story of the most distinctive popular movement of our age, the Age of Ecology.'' J Donald Hughes, University of Denver ''With this customary synoptic vision and idiosyncratic eye for telling detail, Radkau offers a revealing tableau of the multiple histories of modern environmentalism in Europe, America, and around the world. The Age of Ecology is the most thought-provoking and wide-ranging book yet on its subject.'' J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University

Author Information

Joachim Radkau is professor of modern history at Bielefeld University, Germany. His previous publications include Wood: A History and Max Weber: A Biography.  

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