Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Acronyms -- Introduction: Taking the Democratic Dimensions of Anti-Nuclear Activism -- Chapter 1 "Today the Fish, Tomorrow Us": The Threatened Upper Rhine and the Grassroots Origins of West European Environmentalism -- Chapter 2 A Different Watch on the Rhine: How Anti-Nuclear Activists Imagined the Alemannic Community and United a Region in Resistance -- Chapter 3 Onto the Site and into Significance? The Wyhl Occupation in Its Contexts, from Strasbourg to Kaiseraugst and Constance to Kiel -- Chapter 4 "Wyhl and Then What...?"* Between Grassroots Activism and Mass Protest -- Chapter 5 Political Questions, Grassroots Answers: Shaping an Environmental Approach to Electoral Politics -- Chapter 6 Organizing a "Decisive Battle Against Nuclear Power Plants": Europe and the Nationalization of Green Politics in West Germany -- Conclusion: Protesting Nuclear Energy, Greening Democracy -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This book reveals how concerns about nuclear reactors made ordinary people into environmentalists and promoted democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s
