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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779571603321

Autore

Zelko Frank S

Titolo

Make it a green peace! [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of countercultural environmentalism / / Frank Zelko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-19-999109-X

1-299-45697-9

0-19-994709-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 385 pages ) : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

Environmental protection - Political aspects

Antinuclear movement - History

Environmentalism - History

Counterculture - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Speak truth to power -- The enemies of anarchy -- The Canadian crucible -- Don't make a wave -- Not a protestor in the usual sense -- Mururoa, mon amour -- Armless Buddhas vs. carnivorous Nazis -- The reenchanted whale -- Stop Ahab -- On thin ice -- Blood and death and sex -- The paradox of power: the birth of Greenpeace International -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This title explores the complex intellectual and cultural roots of Greenpeace, tracing the development of the organization from its emergence amidst the various protest movements of the 1950s and 1960s to the end of its volative, dramatic, and at times quirky first decade in 1980.