The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
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Word Count
124,000 words, Guess
Page Count
496 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100822361817
- ISBN-139780822361817
- Library of Congress Control Number2016009769
- OCLC Control Number930683607
- Better World Books9780822361817
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27436878M
Classifications
- LCCS930.T39 2016
- LCCS930 .T39 2016
Description
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.
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