The Defoliation of America : Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests /

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"In The Defoliation of America, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight the use of phenoxy herbicides (commonly known as the Agent Orange chemicals) in various aspects of American life during the post-WWII era. First introduce...

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Autor principal: Hay, Amy Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Protest movements.
Herbicides > War use.
Herbicides > Environmental aspects.
Environmentalism.
Defoliants > War use.
Environmentalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Protest movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Defoliants > War use > United States > History > 20th century.
Defoliants > Environmental aspects > United States.
Defoliants > Social aspects > United States.
Herbicides > War use > United States > History > 20th century.
Herbicides > Environmental aspects > United States.
Herbicides > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The defoliation of America : chemical use and protests in post-1945 America
  • Controlling jungle lawns and jungle wars : domestic and international uses of the phenoxy herbicicdes
  • The quickening conscience : seminarians, students, and scientists protest the phenoxy herbicides
  • Ecological disruption in Vietnam : international protests over crop destruction, defoliation, and ecological imperialism
  • Water in the West : Billee Shoecraft and herbicide use in Arizona
  • Fires, farms, forests : Ida Hororof and herbicide use in California
  • Timber and rights-of-way : Carol Van Strum and herbicide spraying in Oregon
  • The war on drugs : the phenoxy herbicides in counterinsurgency and the counterculture
  • Fighting the deadly fog : Vietnam veterans protest Agent Orange herbicide
  • Unexpected casualities : the phenoxy herbicides and reproductive harm
  • Conclusion. The dissenters : citizens protest chemical herbicides.

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