{"product_id":"the-light-green-society-ecology-and-technological-modernity-in-france-1960-2000-paperback","title":"The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Bess\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new \"light-green\" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Light-Green Society\u003c\/i\u003e limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to \"save\" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a \"separate sphere\" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled \u003ci\u003enature-culture\u003c\/i\u003e has increasingly taken its place.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new \"light-green\" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Light-Green Society\u003c\/i\u003e limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to \"save\" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a \"separate sphere\" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled \u003ci\u003enature-culture\u003c\/i\u003e has increasingly taken its place.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Bess is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of \"Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989,\" also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 369\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9.28 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52610499477811,"sku":"9780226044187","price":64.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TVlxZUgxcHZsMnJQS3NyZitlT2xaZz09.webp?v=1761828799","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-light-green-society-ecology-and-technological-modernity-in-france-1960-2000-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}