Nature and the Iron Curtain

For American environmental historians, the Cold War provides an essential category for understanding the social and political rise of the modern environmental movement. But while the field's scholars have done well to add texture and nuance to the term Cold War environmentalism in the United States, the relationship between the Cold War and environmental activism elsewhere has garnered less attention. In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the editors Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill cast new light on this relationship with a collection of essays that underscore the heterogeneity of Cold War environmentalism on both sides of the East-West divide. A closer look at the particularities of Cold War environmental movements on the frontiers of the Cold War, the editors suggest, gives the lie to a litany of caricatures about environmental activism, communist and capitalist systems, and monolithic East-West relations common to both popular discourse and some professional

Cold war · Communism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Environmental movement · Environmentalism · Iron Curtain · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social activism · Social movement · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law

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