1. Challenging modernity : the origins of postwar environmental protest in the United States / Frank Zelko -- 2. Protecting nature and practicing democracy in West Germany : a case study from the Black Forest / Sandra Lynn Chaney -- 3. From "land" to "place" : landscape conservation and environmental activism in the Magaliesberg, South Africa, and Cooper's Creek, Australia / Jane Carruthers -- 4. Environmental activism in the Soviet context : a social analysis / Douglas R. Weiner -- 5. Sprouts of environmentalism in China? : government-organized NGOs and green organizations in disguise / Peter Ho -- 6. Battles for nature : contesting wildlife conservation in twentieth-century India / Mahesh Rangarajan -- 7. Forest struggles and forest policy : villagers' environmental activism in Mexico / Daniel J. Klooster -- 8. Placing local environmental protest within global environmental networks : colonist farmers and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon / J. Christopher Brown
