The Myth of Silent Spring - by Chad Montrie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> "The Myth of Silent Spring challenges the widely held belief that Rachel Carson's celebrated 1962 book catalyzed the American environmental movement. While acknowledging the important contribution of Carson's exposâe, this book draws on a bounty of rich sources to push the movement's origins further back in time. It recognizes a long line of overlooked historical actors and identifies several other critical factors behind the rise of modern environmental thinking and protest. Recovering this slighted history helps us to better understand who should count as an 'environmentalist' and what should count as 'environmentalism,' essential insights for building a hardy environmental movement today and in the future"--Provided by publishe<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson's book <i>Silent Spring</i> has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the advent of industrial manufacturing and the consequent growth of cities. As these changes transformed people's lives, ordinary Americans came to recognize the connections between economic exploitation, social inequality, and environmental problems. As the modern age dawned, they turned to labor unions, sportsmen's clubs, racial and ethnic organizations, and community groups to respond to such threats accordingly. <i>The Myth of Silent Spring</i> tells this story. By challenging the canonical "songbirds and suburbs" interpretation associated with Carson and her work, the book gives readers a more accurate sense of the past and better prepares them for thinking and acting in the present.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"<i>The Myth of Silent Spring</i> finds the origins of modern environmental consciousness in the history of the American worker--autoworker and farmworker, socialist and social worker, union rank-and-file and inner-city black--showing us a world not only unexplored, but largely unimagined by environmental historians. This book rewrites the history of environmentalism, infusing it with contemporary relevance."--Richard W. Judd, author of <i>Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England</i> <p/> "<i>The Myth of Silent Spring</i> successfully attacks the dominant narrative of the environmental movement's origins. Importantly, author Chad Montrie deftly uncovers the pivotal importance of labor and the working class in environmental struggles since the late nineteenth century. His well-researched book deserves close attention by scholars, activists, and politicians alike."--Elizabeth D. Blum, author of <i>Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism</i> <p/> "A much-needed synthesis of current scholarship on environmentalism 'from the bottom up' Montrie introduces us to a whole host of forgotten working-class, Latino, African American, immigrant, and female green activists. In so doing, he shows us that environmentalism was always far more than simply a white suburban initiative."--Colin Fisher, author of <i>Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago</i> <br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Chad Montrie's book restores complexity to the history of American environmentalist movements and does justice to the actions against the degradation of nature that have been forgotten by the historiography, too focused on the heroic story (or history) of a white and bourgeois (or middle-class) scientist. The risk of such a thesis would be to minimize the diagnosis and the action of Rachel Carson, but Chad Montrie recognizes at the same time her courage, her pugnacity and her determination. It is less a matter of denying her impact--recognized by the historiography--than of recalling the competing imaginaries and actions that have also worked for the protection of the environment, in a long history that precedes Rachel Carson, to show that the environment is not necessarily opposed to use (or utilization), and to introduce a social analysis to a trajectory of degradation (or alteration) of the environment that is not a process involving humanity as a whole."-- "Le Mouvement Social"<br><br>"Montrie's purpose in writing this book . . . is to do more than inspire mere academic debate. Instead, he hopes to broaden the sights of environmentalists as well as to encourage them to seek out allies beyond the suburbs. In correcting what he sees as a truncated and therefore deeply flawed narrative of US environmental activism, he posits a more usable past, one from which modern-day activists can draw lessons about both the long-term environmental concerns and protest of working people. For this reason, this book deserves a wide readership."-- "Environmental History"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Chad Montrie</b> is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of several books, including <i>A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States</i>.
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