Linda Nash
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Nash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Nash |
| SIGNATURE | NASH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
In this well-written monograph, Jennifer Thomson aims to interrogate and trace changes in the idea of health as it was understood within the environmental politics of the late twentieth century. Organizing her analysis around four case studies, Thomson examines the ways health was mobilized by distinct representatives of environmentalism in the 1970s and early 1980s: the organization Friends of the Earth; the Love Canal Homeowners Association; a …
From Safety to Risk: The Cold War Contexts of American Environmental Policy
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Forum: Technology, Ecology, and Human Health Since 1850
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theo…
What’s Next for Environmental History
The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California
In the postwar period, modernist frameworks of the human body, which described the body as both cosmopolitan and separated from its environment, competed with ecological frameworks that constructed the body as inherently porous and tightly linked to the surrounding world. The history of pesticide-related illness among farmworkers, and the gradual recognition that pesticides posed a new kind of public health problem, illustrates how these competin…
Finishing Nature: Harmonizing Bodies and Environments in Late-Nineteenth-Century California
The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River
Journal Article The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River Get access Linda Nash Linda Nash assistant professor of history University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1600–1629, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567579 Published: 01 March 2000
Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change along the Missouri
Journal Article Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change along the Missouri. By Robert Kelley Schneiders. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xiv, 314 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0937-7.) Get access Linda Nash Linda Nash University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567951 P…
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theo…
The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California
In the postwar period, modernist frameworks of the human body, which described the body as both cosmopolitan and separated from its environment, competed with ecological frameworks that constructed the body as inherently porous and tightly linked to the surrounding world. The history of pesticide-related illness among farmworkers, and the gradual recognition that pesticides posed a new kind of public health problem, illustrates how these competin…
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum
From Safety to Risk: The Cold War Contexts of American Environmental Policy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Forum: Technology, Ecology, and Human Health Since 1850
Finishing Nature: Harmonizing Bodies and Environments in Late-Nineteenth-Century California
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
In this well-written monograph, Jennifer Thomson aims to interrogate and trace changes in the idea of health as it was understood within the environmental politics of the late twentieth century. Organizing her analysis around four case studies, Thomson examines the ways health was mobilized by distinct representatives of environmentalism in the 1970s and early 1980s: the organization Friends of the Earth; the Love Canal Homeowners Association; a …
The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River
Journal Article The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River Get access Linda Nash Linda Nash assistant professor of history University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1600–1629, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567579 Published: 01 March 2000
The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River
Journal Article The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River Get access Linda Nash Linda Nash assistant professor of history University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1600–1629, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567579 Published: 01 March 2000
Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change along the Missouri
Journal Article Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change along the Missouri. By Robert Kelley Schneiders. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xiv, 314 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0937-7.) Get access Linda Nash Linda Nash University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567951 P…
Finishing Nature: Harmonizing Bodies and Environments in Late-Nineteenth-Century California
The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California
In the postwar period, modernist frameworks of the human body, which described the body as both cosmopolitan and separated from its environment, competed with ecological frameworks that constructed the body as inherently porous and tightly linked to the surrounding world. The history of pesticide-related illness among farmworkers, and the gradual recognition that pesticides posed a new kind of public health problem, illustrates how these competin…
What’s Next for Environmental History
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theo…
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum
Forum: Technology, Ecology, and Human Health Since 1850
From Safety to Risk: The Cold War Contexts of American Environmental Policy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
In this well-written monograph, Jennifer Thomson aims to interrogate and trace changes in the idea of health as it was understood within the environmental politics of the late twentieth century. Organizing her analysis around four case studies, Thomson examines the ways health was mobilized by distinct representatives of environmentalism in the 1970s and early 1980s: the organization Friends of the Earth; the Love Canal Homeowners Association; a …
History (7 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · American History and Culture (5 works) · History (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (3 works)