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UNINA9910795763203321 |
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Hay Amy Marie |
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The defoliation of America : agent orange chemicals, citizens, and protests / / Amy M. Hay |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Herbicides - War use - United States - History - 20th century |
Defoliants - War use - United States - History - 20th century |
Protest movements - United States - History - 20th century |
Environmentalism - United States - History - 20th century |
Herbicides - Social aspects - United States |
Herbicides - Environmental aspects - United States |
Defoliants - Social aspects - United States |
Defoliants - Environmental aspects - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-291) and index. |
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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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"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 introduced in 1946, these chemicals mimic hormones in broadleaf plants, causing them to, essentially, grow to death while grass, grains, and other monocots remain unaffected. By the 1950s, millions of pounds of chemicals were produced annually for use in brush control, weed eradication, other agricultural applications, and forest management. The herbicides allowed suburban lawns to take root and become iconic symbols of success in American life. The production and application of phenoxy defoliants continued to skyrocket in subsequent years, encouraged by market forces and unimpeded by regulatory oversight. By the late 1950s, however, pockets of skepticism and resistance had begun to appear. The trend picked up steam after 1962, when Rachel Carson's Silent Spring directed mainstream attention to the harm modern chemicals were causing in the natural world. But it wasn't until the Vietnam War, when nearly 40 million gallons of Agent Orange and related herbicides were sprayed to clear the canopy and destroy crops in Southeast Asia, that the long-term damage associated with this group of chemicals began to attract widespread attention and alarm. Using a wide array of sources and an interdisciplinary approach, The Defoliation of America is organized in three parts. Part 1 (1945-70) examines the development, use, and responses to the new chemicals used to control weeds and remove jungle growth. As the herbicides became militarized, critics increasingly expressed concerns about defoliation in protests over US imperialism in Southeast Asia. Part 2 (1965-85) profiles three different women who, influenced by Rachel Carson, challenged the uses of the herbicides in the American West, affecting US chemical policy and regulations in the process. Part 3 (1970-95) revisits the impact and legacies of defoliant use after the Vietnam War. From countercultural containment and Nixon's declaration of the "War on Drugs" to the toxic effects on American and Vietnamese veterans, civilians, and their children, it became increasingly obvious that American herbicides damaged far more than forest canopies. With sensitivity to the role gender played in these various protests, Hay's study of the scientists, health and environmental activists, and veterans who fought US chemical regulatory policies and practices reveals the mechanisms, obligations, and constraints of state and scientific authority in midcentury America. Hay also shows how these disparate and mostly forgotten citizen groups challenged the political consensus and were able to shift government and industry narratives of chemical safety"-- |
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UNINA9910132435903321 |
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Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax : New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language / / ed. by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist, Janne Bondi Johannessen |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015 |
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Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015] |
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2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 electronic resource (v, 232 pp. p.) |
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Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; ; 221 |
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Swedish language - Dialects - Morphology |
Swedish language - Dialects - Syntax |
Swedish language - Dialects - Sweden - Älvdalen |
Swedish language - Dialects - Sweden - lvdalen |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Prelim pages -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Övdalian from 1909 to 2009 -- On the morpho-syntax of verb/adverb placement and fronting in embedded clauses in Modern Övdalian -- Optional V-to-I movement in Övdalian -- The syntax and meaning of subject doubling in Övdalian -- The polyfunctionality of which in Övdalian -- Is there a vocative case in the Övdalian language? -- The morphological expression of case in Övdalian -- Index |
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Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative isolation for about 1000 years, a number of interesting linguistic archaisms have been preserved and innovations have developed. This volume provides seven papers about Övdalian morphology and syntax. The papers, all based on extensive fieldwork, cover topics such as verb movement, subject doubling, wh-words and |
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case in Övdalian. Constituting the first comprehensive linguistic description of Övdalian in English, this volume is of interest for linguists in the fields of Scandinavian and Germanic linguistics, and also historical linguists will be thrilled by some of the presented data. The data and the analyses presented here furthermore challenge our view of the morphosyntax of the Scandinavian languages in some cases – as could be expected when a new language enters the linguistic arena. |
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