{"product_id":"the-light-green-society-michael-bess-9780226044187","title":"The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000","description":"The 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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Bess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226044181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226044187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 5.90w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2004 pg. 2113","brand":"Michael Bess","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913417588991,"sku":"9780226044187","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9c9b324f-b085-4e3e-bad2-5ba18654ef00.jpg?v=1680620294","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-light-green-society-michael-bess-9780226044187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}