By Thomas Robertson
Weaving jointly the foreign and the household in artistic new methods, The Malthusian Moment charts the explosion of Malthusian pondering within the usa from international struggle I to Earth Day 1970, then lines the just-as-surprising decline in predicament starting within the mid-1970s. as well as supplying an unconventional examine global struggle II and the chilly battle via a balanced learn of the environmental movement’s such a lot contentious concept, the e-book sheds new mild on a few of the giant tales of postwar American existence: the increase of intake, the expansion of the government, city and suburban difficulties, the civil rights and women’s events, the function of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes approximately intercourse and sexuality, and the emergence of the “New Right.”
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