| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 353 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Power and resistance in redwood country: Maxxam versus the forest defense -- Convoking the opposition: one year and counting in the branches of Luna -- Everybody needs a home: speaking up for workers, owners, and the company town of Scotia -- Indian trouble: the colonizing culture of capitalism -- Labor trouble: capitalism, work, and resistance in the redwoods -- Trouble in the forest: Earth First!, Redwood Summer, and the alliance to save Headwaters |
| Summary |
Wars over natural resources have been fiercely fought in the Humboldt Bay redwood region of Northern California, a situation made devastatingly urgent in recent decades of timber war that raised questions of economic sustainability and ecological preservation. In Trouble in the Forest, Richard Widick narrates the long and bloody history of this hostility and demonstrates how it exemplifies the key contemporary challenge facing the modern societies--the collision of capitalism, ecology, and social justice. An innovative blend of social history, cultural theory, and ethnography, Trouble in the For |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-333) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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| Subject |
Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- California
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Forest conservation -- California -- Citizen participation
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Redwood industry -- Social aspects -- California
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Logging -- California
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Ecoterrorism -- California
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Anti-environmentalism -- California
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Anti-environmentalism
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Ecoterrorism
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Environmentalism -- Social aspects
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Forest conservation -- Citizen participation
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Logging
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California
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816670765 |
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0816670765 |
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