The Malthusian moment global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism /

Main Author: Robertson, Thomas, 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10593852
Table of 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.