The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Subtitle: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: Aug 26, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780822361817
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.
Notes: Source title: The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection