The Malthusian moment [electronic resource] : global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism / Thomas Robertson.
By: Robertson, Thomas.
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BookSeries: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment. Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c2012Description: xix, 291 p. : ill.Subject(s): Overpopulation -- History | Environmentalism -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.9/1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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