The Malthusian moment : global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism / Thomas Robertson
- Author:
- Robertson, Thomas, 1967-
- Published:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2012
- Physical Description:
- xix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Malthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period -- War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology -- Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life -- "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War -- The "Chinification" of American cities, suburbs, and wilderness -- Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the population bomb -- Strange bedfellows: population politics, 1968-1970 -- We're all in the same boat?! The disuniting of spaceship earth -- Ronald Reagan, the new right, and population growth.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780813552712
0813552710
9780813552729 (pbk.)
0813552729 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-283) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Lawrence C., Wives Ruth Jennings 1934-1964 and Evelyn Foster 1966-1999, Lemmon Social Sciences Libraries Collections Endowment; 2012
- Endowment Note:
- Lawrence C., Ruth J., and Evelyn F. Lemmon Social Sciences Libraries Collections Endowment
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