#  MHS Environmental History Seminar 

 



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 **October 13, 2015** 

 05:15PM - 05:15PM EDT 

 



 

How Rachel Carson Became a Revolutionary: Environmental Politics and the Public Sphere

David Hecht, Bowdoin College Comment: Chris Bosso, Northeastern University

*Silent Spring* is generally considered a foundational text of the modern environmental movement. However, this paper contends that Rachel Carson’s legacy is more mixed than the historical memory about her allows. This essay considers the surprisingly varied reception of *Silent Spring* over the last five decades. Ultimately, it argues, that assessment that Carson's work was revolutionary reflects the vicissitudes of environmental politics as much as anything intrinsic to the book itself.



 

 



 

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