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The Gentle Subversive; Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
ISBN: 9780195172461 | 0195172469
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/12/2007
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Mark Hamilton Lytle is Professor of History and Environmental Studies and Chair of the American Studies Program, Bard College.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson'... MORE
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson'... MORE
| Foreword | p. vi |
| Acknowledgments | p. viii |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Spring: Sense of Wonder: Under the Sea-Wind | p. 13 |
| Summer: Florescence: The Sea Around Us | p. 55 |
| Fall: The Fullness of Life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT | p. 94 |
| Winter: The Poison Book and the Dark Season of Vindication | p. 133 |
| Epilogue: Rachel Carson: The Legacy | p. 196 |
| Afterword | ... MOREp. 231 |
| Bibliography | p. 259 |
| Index | p. 262 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Mark Hamilton Lytle is Professor of History and Environmental Studies and Chair of the American Studies Program, Bard College.
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