{"product_id":"the-malthusian-moment-global-population-growth-and-the-birth-of-american-environmentalism-hardback-9780813552712","title":"The Malthusian Moment; Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism (Hardback) 9780813552712","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Malthusian Moment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGlobal Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Robertson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813552712\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 12 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Whatever happened to overpopulation? Thomas Robertson’s thorough, lively, and superbly historicized account helps us think through this most pressing question.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Environmental History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An excellent synthesis. The real strength of Robertson's work is his consideration of the dynamism and complexity of attitudes toward overpopulation. Writing a historical synthesis is never easy, but good environmental history demands it. Robertson has pulled the task off in spades.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of American History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Skillfully weaving together heightened concerns over rampant consumerism, accelerating population growth and environmental degradation, and their impact on American foreign policy, \u003ci\u003eThe Malthusian Moment\u003c\/i\u003e is very likely to become obligatory reading for those interested in the tumultuous decades of the Vietnam era.\" \u003c\/div\u003e - Michael Adas (Rutgers University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This volume traces how the sociopolitically-based environmental movement of the post-WW II era embraced the siren calls of biologists warning of the global impact of overpopulation. Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Malthusian Moment\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable book that brings environmental history in touch with diplomatic and international history, helping to fill a gap in our understanding of the rise and fall of population politics.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Kurk Dorsey (University of New Hampshire) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Robertson explores complex linkages among global population growth, the politics of population, food and hunger, and American environmental anxiety in the 20th century. His is the clearest, most incisive study of American thinking on population from 1945-75, the height of Malthusian fears in intellectual and official circles.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - J.R. McNeill (Georgetown University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The great strength of this volume is the way the author teases out how ecological models and biological thinking shaped the population discussion in the 1960s, and how Ehrlich in particular rethought his formulations in light of the nuances of political matters, and re-emphasized his critiques to be more sensitive to his audience.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Canadian Studies in Population)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAlthough Rachel Carson’s \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in \u003ci\u003eThe Malthusian Moment\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus’s concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II-everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home.\u003cp\u003eWeaving together the international and the domestic in creative new ways, \u003ci\u003eThe Malthusian Moment\u003c\/i\u003e charts the explosion of Malthusian thinking in the United States from World War I to Earth Day 1970, then traces the just-as-surprising decline in concern beginning in the mid-1970s. In addition to offering an unconventional look at World War II and the Cold War through a balanced study of the environmental movement’s most contentious theory, the book sheds new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the rise of consumption, the growth of the federal government, urban and suburban problems, the civil rights and women’s movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the “New Right.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMalthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period\u003cbr\u003e War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology\u003cbr\u003e Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eFeed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e The \"\u003cbr\u003eChinification\"\u003cbr\u003e of American cities, suburbs, and wilderness\u003cbr\u003e Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the population bomb\u003cbr\u003e Strange bedfellows: population politics, 1968-1970\u003cbr\u003e We're all in the same boat!?: The disuniting of spaceship earth\u003cbr\u003e Ronald Reagan, the new right, and population growth\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559300591896,"sku":"9780813552712","price":83.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-malthusian-moment-global-population-growth-and-the-birth-of-american-environmentalism-hardback-9780813552712","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}