This work provides an overview of environmental politics since 1945 - both in its formative and in its maturing years. The overall focus is on the emergence of an environmental culture that has engaged millions of Americans in varied ways of thought and action.

Paul Sigmund, who has studied Chile for more than a decade, and lived and taught there, offers an exhaustive, balanced analysis of the overthrow of Salvador Allende, and why it occurred. Sigmund examines the Allende government, the Frei government that preceeded it, the coup that ended it, and the Pinochet government that succeeded it.