Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West

Children are the future. Or so we like to tell ourselves. In the wake of the Second...
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Author: Jeffrey C. Sanders
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Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West by Sanders, Jeffrey C.

Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West

$87.09

Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West

$87.09
Author: Jeffrey C. Sanders
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Children are the future. Or so we like to tell ourselves. In the wake of the Second World War, Americans took this notion to heart. Confronted by both unprecedented risks and unprecedented opportunities, they elevated and perhaps exaggerated the significance of children for the survival of the human race. Razing Kids analyzes the relationship between the postwar demographic explosion and the birth of postwar ecology. In the American West, especially, workers, policymakers, and reformers interwove hopes for youth, environment, and the future. They linked their anxieties over children to their fears of environmental risk as they debated the architecture of wartime playgrounds, planned housing developments and the impact of radioactive particles released from distant hinterlands. They obsessed over how riot-riddled cities, War on Poverty era rural work camps and pesticide-laden agricultural valleys would affect children. Nervous about the world they were making, their hopes and fears reshaped postwar debates about what constituted the social and environmental good.

Author: Jeffrey C. Sanders
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/10/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781107527546


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2022

About the Author
Sanders, Jeffrey C.: - Jeffrey C. Sanders is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Washington State University. He is the author of Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia (2010).

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