Blue jeans, MTV, Coca-Cola, and ecology? We don't often think of conservation sciences as a U.S. export, but in the second half of the twentieth century an astounding array of scientists and ideas flowed out from the United States into the world, preaching the gospel of conservation-oriented ecology.
"Inventing Global Ecology" grapples with how we should understand the development of global ecology in the twentieth century a science that is held responsible for, literally, saving the world. Is the spread of ecology throughout the globe a subtle form of cultural imperialism, as some claim?...