The Rise of the American Conservation Movement Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
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In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites-whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands-the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780822361817 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Pub date: | 26 Aug 2016 |
DEWEY: | 333.720973 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 496 |
Weight: | 812g |
Height: | 162mm |
Width: | 242mm |
Spine width: | 31mm |