Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
A Hilton M. Briggs Resource Guide
| Background | Books | Other Library Sources | Web Sites | Search Terms/Electronic Resources |
Background
In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book that brought pesticide use and humankind's relationship with nature to the forefront of the national consciousness. Carson combined scientific information with an emotional element, her love and regard for the natural world. This proved a powerful combination. Silent Spring has been translated into 22 languages and is still widely read. Many consider the book a pivotal turning point in the modern environmental movement.
A Sense of Wonder, a film based on a stage play about Rachel Carson's reflections on publishing Silent Spring, will be shown Tuesday 10 February, 7 p.m., at the Art Museum Alumni Auditorium at South Dakota State University. The film is part of SDSU's Spring 2009 Film Series and SDSU's Year of Science activities.
The following is a list of selected resources for those interested in further exploration of the topic.
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Call Number |
Title/Author |
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QH307 .C3s |
Silent spring/Rachel Carson |
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QH81 .C3546 1998 |
Lost woods : the discovered writing of Rachel Carson |
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QH91 .C3e |
The edge of the sea /Rachel Carson |
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GC21 C3s |
The sea around us/Rachel Carson |
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QH92 .C3u |
Under the sea-wind, a naturalist's picture of ocean life/
Rachel Carson |
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QH31.C33 B7 |
The house of life: Rachel Carson at work; with selections from
her writings published and unpublished/Paul Brooks |
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QH545.P4 S55 1987 |
Silent spring revisited |
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QH31.C33 R33 2008 |
Rachel Carson : legacy and challenge |
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QH31.C33 L98 2007 |
The gentle subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the
rise of the environmental movement / Mark Hamilton Lytle |
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QH545.P4 C684 2007 |
Courage for the Earth : writers, scientists, and activists
celebrate the life and writing of Rachel Carson |
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GE40 .D48 2006 |
The origins of modern environmental thought / J. Edward de
Steiguer |
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QH545.C48 R87 2001 |
War and nature : fighting humans and insects with chemicals
from World War I to Silent spring / Edmund Russell |
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QH545.P4 C3833 2000 |
And no birds sing : rhetorical analyses of Rachel Carson's
Silent spring |
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JA75.8 .M55 1996 |
Minding nature : the philosophers of ecology |
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GE55 .B74 1998 |
Women pioneers for the environment / Mary Joy Breton |
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RA1270 .P4W45 |
Before Silent spring : pesticides and public health in pre-DDT
America / James Whorton |
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PS169.E25 A44 2008 |
American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau |
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Q130 .T36 2006 |
Scientific pioneers : women succeeding in science / Joyce Tang |
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Q130 .S39 1997 |
Natural eloquence : women reinscribe science |
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PS169.E25 B79 2002 |
Visions of the land : science, literature, and the American
environment from the era of exploration to the age of
ecology / Michael A. Bryson |
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QH31.C33 L43 1997 |
Rachel Carson : witness for nature / Linda Lear |
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QH31.C33 A4 1995 |
Always, Rachel : the letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy
Freeman, 1952-1964 |
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E169.12 .J35 1994 |
Seeds of the sixties / Andrew Jamison, Ron Eyerman |
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QH31.C33 M34 1993 |
Rachel Carson / Mary A. McCay |
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Location/Call Number |
Title |
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AUDIO VISUAL/MAIN LEVEL QH545.P4 R25 2007 |
Rachel Carson's Silent spring [videorecording (DVD)] |
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GOVT DOC FICHE/LOWER LEVEL Y 4.G 74/7:P 43/5 |
Thirty years after Silent spring : status of EPA's review of
older pesticides : hearing before the Environment,
Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the
Committee on Government Operations, House of
Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second
session, July 23, 1992. |
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GOVT DOC/LOWER LEVEL I 49.44/2:R 11/2 |
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge |
| AUDIO VISUAL/MAIN LEVEL : QH31.C33 S4 2008 |
A sense of wonder [videorecording (DVD)] : two
interviews with Rachel Carson / Kaiulani Lee |
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Web Site Title |
Web Address |
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The Life and Legacy of Rachel
Carson |
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The Rachel Carson Homestead |
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Rachel Carson National Wildlife
Refuge |
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The Rachel Carson Forum |
http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/heritage/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=442627 |
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Online Ethics Center/Rachel
Carson-Silent Spring |
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The Time 100: The Most
Important People of the Century |
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/carson.html |
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Search Terms |
Electronic Resources |
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Rachel Carson |
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Silent Spring |
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Pesticides |
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Environmentalism |
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DDT |
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Nature |
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Wildlife |
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Women |
Guide created and updated by Linda Kott.
Last updated on 8 February 2009.