Crisis of the wasteful nation
Subtitle: empire and conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America
By: Ian Tyrrell
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780226197760; 9780226197937
Subjects: Conservation of natural resources; History; Government policy; Knowledge
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of alarm. Alarmism and the wasteful nation ; American conservation and the "world movement": networks, personnel, and the international context; title: The new empire and the rise of conservation. Colonies, natural resources, and geopolitical thought in the new empire ; Encountering the tropical world: the impact of empire ; Energy and empire: shadows of the fossil fuel revolution ; Dynamic geography: irrigation, waterways, and the inland empire ; The problem of the soils and the problem of the toilers ; Conservation, scenery, and the sustainability of nature ; Lessons for living: Irving Fisher, national vitality, and human conservation; title: The global vision of Theodore Roosevelt and its fate. To the halls of Europe: the African safari and Roosevelt's campaign to conserve nature (while killing it) ; Something big: Theodore Roosevelt and global conservation ; "A senseless and mischievous fad?": from alarm to sobriety as a nation takes stock; title: Epilogue. The present, the future, and the power of contingency in human life.