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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Anthropocentric environmentalism -- Placing (European) humans first -- Scrambles in Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific -- Enter the environmentalists? -- To the 1900 convention -- The 1902 bird convention -- Marine life -- World war -- New hope? -- Chapter 2 From war through war -- Whaling -- Oil pollution -- Fisheries -- The 1933 convention -- Birds in North America -- Transboundary pollution -- A World again at war -- The United Nations -- Chapter 3 Cold war, science, and the environment -- Containment, fisheries, and whaling -- Korea -- Science, nature, and the cold war -- The Great Leap Forward -- The atomic arms race -- From moratorium to test ban -- Victory for the environmentalists? -- Chapter 4 Silent Spring, Stockholm, and the North-South divide -- The new environmentalism -- Vietnam and the environment -- Marine life -- Decolonization and the North-South divide -- LDCs and the environment -- Stockholm -- Stockholm's legacy -- Omens -- Chapter 5 Creating regimes -- Stockholm: A legacy lacking -- The Anglo-American shift -- Marine life -- Acid rain and the climate conundrum -- The ozone quandary -- Chernobyl -- The Persian Gulf War -- Addressing ozone -- Hazardous waste -- To Rio -- The Rio conference -- The resistance to environmental regimes -- Chapter 6 The Anthropocene epoch? -- Addressing the Rio Agenda -- NAFTA -- Marine life -- Hazardous waste -- The ozone layer and climate change -- Johannesburg -- The challenges persist -- The climate conundrum continues -- Paris -- Nuclear power and plastics -- In the Anthropocene? -- Conclusion: Accomplishments and challenges -- Accomplishments -- Challenges at sea -- Challenges on land: Poaching, poison, and radiation -- Demographic challenges

1. Détente's Limits: Caught between Cooperation and Confrontation -- 2. Beyond Narcissism: Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of Malaise -- 3. Gerald Ford: From Michigan to Washington -- 4. From Plains to Atlanta, 1924--1974 -- 5. The Presidency and the Pardon -- 6. Gerald R. Ford's Domestic Policy -- 7. US Intelligence Agencies during the Ford Years -- 8. Détente's Disintegration, Neoconservatism, and the Ford Presidency -- 9. Ford and the Armed Forces -- 10. Gerald R. Ford: The Press, Popular Culture, and Politics -- 11. Ford and Ford -- 12. Just a Caretaker? -- 13. Politics and the Public Mood in 1976 -- 14. Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential Campaign: The Saint, the Sinner, and the Hopeless Dreamer -- 15. The Transition -- 16. Carter, the Soviet Union, Détente, and SALT II -- 17. Trilateralism -- 18. From East--West to North--South -- 19. Carter's Domestic Dilemmas, 1977--1978 -- 20. Mrs. President? -- 21. President Carter and the Press -- 22. Jimmy Carter, Congress, and the Supreme Court -- 23. 1979: Year of Crises -- 24. The Armed Forces during the Carter Years -- 25. The Center of the Carter Conundrum: Human Rights and Foreign Policy -- 26. The Election of 1980 -- 27. Get Carter: Assessing the Record of the Thirty-Ninth President -- 28. The Post‐Presidential Years of Gerald R. Ford -- 29. A Presidency Lost, a Life Gained: Jimmy Carter's Post‐Presidency -- 30. Agendas, Speakers, and Spokesmen

Introduction : promoting the peaceful atom -- A plan of biblical proportions -- Just drop us a card -- A program on hold -- From moratorium to test ban -- The complexities of canal construction -- Nuclear testing, nonproliferation, and Plowshare -- Making headway? -- Plowshare goes down under -- Dead as a doornail -- Conclusion : back from the dead?