num_pages: 496
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 eliteswhose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native landsthe 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.
language: English
title: The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
publisher: Duke University Press Books