Joachim Radkau is professor of modern history at Bielefeld University, Germany. His previous publications include Wood: A History and Max Weber: A Biography.

Preface to the English Edition vii

Acknowledgements xiv

Introduction: The Green Chameleon 1

One Environmentalism before the Environmental Movement 11

1 Good Mother Nature and the 'Appalling Wood Shortage': The Twin Face of Nature in the Decline of the Commons 11

2 Nature in Need of Protection and Nature as Healing Power: Environmental Activism in the 'Nervous Age' 24

3 'The Desert Threatens': Environmental Fears in the Age of Crisis - the New Deal and Nazi Germany 46

4 Think Big! A Charismatic Intermezzo on the Olympian Heights 61

Two The Great Chain Reaction: The 'Ecological Revolution' in and around 1970 79

Three Networked Thinking and Practical Priorities: An Endless Interplay 114

1 On the Ecology of Ecologism 121

2 Water and the Atom 137

3 Changing Priorities: The Movement in Motion 162

Four Charismatics and Ecocrats 182

1 Spiritual Quest and Charismatic Moments 182

2 Ten Heroines Embodying Tensions in the Movement 201

3 Institutionalization, Routinization, Revitalization 237

Five A Friend-Enemy or Win-Win Scenario? 259

1 From Nuclear Power to the Spotted Owl 259

2 Violence and the Green Conscience 288

3 Ecology and Economics: The Challenge of Conceptual Analogy 320

Six Ecology and the Historic Turn of 1990: From Social Justice to Climate Justice? 339

Conclusion: The Dialectic of Green Enlightenment 425

Notes 432

Index 517