The Age of Ecology

31.01.2014

Englisch

9780745662169

John Wiley & Sons

Nein

Joachim Radkau

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Gebundene Ausgabe

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

Cultural Studies, Environmental Change, Environmental Studies, Kulturwissenschaften, Ökologie, Umweltforschung, Umweltveränderungen

PSAF - Ökologie, Biosphäre

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

229 mm

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