Shades of Green Environment Activism Around

Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.

The German Historical Institute

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Christof Mauch, Nathan Stoltzfus, and Douglas R. Weiner

1 Challenging Modernity: The Origins of Postwar Environmental Protest in the United States

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Frank Zelko

2 Protecting Nature and Practicing Democracy in West Germany: A Case Study from the Black Forest

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Sandra Lynn Chaney

3 From "Land" to "Place": Landscape Conservation and Environmental Activism in the Magaliesberg, South Africa, and Cooper's Creek, Australia

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Jane Carruthers

4 Environmental Activism in the Soviet Context: A Social Analysis

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Douglas R. Weiner

5 Sprouts of Environmentalism in China? Government-Organized NGOs and Green Organizations in Disguise

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(26)

Peter Ho

6 Battles for Nature: Contesting Wildlife Conservation in Twentieth-Century India

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(22)

Mahesh Rangarajan

7 Forest Struggles and Forest Policy: Villagers' Environmental Activism in Mexico

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Daniel J. Klooster

8 Placing Local Environmental Protest within Global Environmental Networks: Colonist Farmers and Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon

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J. Christopher Brown

Index

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About the Contributors and Editors

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Shades of Green Environment Activism Around the Globe

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