Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution
At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.
Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
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Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution
At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.
Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780374526597 |
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Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date: | 12/01/1999 |
Pages: | 261 |
Sales rank: | 660,581 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.61(d) |
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