The Malthusian moment [electronic resource] : global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism / Thomas Robertson.

By: Robertson, Thomas, 1967-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environmentPublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c2012Description: xix, 291 p. : illISBN: 9780813553351 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Overpopulation -- History | Environmentalism -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.9/1 LOC classification: HB871 | .R57 2012Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-283) and index.

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.

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