The smoke and the spoils : anti-environmentalism and class struggle in the United States / John Hultgren.

Author/creator Hultgren, John, 1981- author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionviii, 288 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction : putting anti-environmentalism to work -- Rollin' coal with Du Bois : the "wages of whiteness" on the wild frontier -- Defending the suburban environment : the treadmill of social reproduction and the making of the middle class -- "Those who bring from the Earth" : anti-environmentalism and the conservative lexicon of class -- Undoing the Oikos, awakening resistance : the political environment of "Trump Country" -- Conclusion : from ashes to fascists?.
Abstract "Traces anti-env. from the 19th-c frontier to the 1950s suburb, from the shuttered shops of Main St to Trump Country and presents a political theory of anti-env. grounded in class struggle"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Hultgren, John, 1981- Smoke and the spoils. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025] 9780262383233
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