The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

Dorceta E. Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6198-5 (ISBN)

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In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multi-faceted conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how race, class, and gender influenced its every aspect.

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.

Dorceta E. Taylor is James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s–1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change, also published by Duke University Press, and Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility, and the editor of Environment and Social Justice: An International Perspective.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. The Impetus for Change

1. Key Concepts Informing Early Conservation Thought 9

2. Wealthy People and the City: An Ambivalent Relationship 32

Part II. Manliness, Womanhood, Wealth, and Sport

3. Wealth, Manliness, and Exploring the Outdoors: Racial and Gender Dynamics 51

4. Wealth, Women, and Outdoor Pursuits 83

5. People of Color: Access to and Control of Resources 109

Part III. Wildlife Protection

6. Sport Hunting, Scarcity, and Wildlife Protection 161

7. Blaming Women, Immigrants, and Minorities for Bird Destruction 189

8. Challenging Wildlife Regulations and Understanding the Business-Conservation Connections 224

Part IV. Gender, Wealth, and Forest Conservation

9. Rural Beautification and Forest Conservation: Gender, Class, and Corporate Dynamics 257

10. Preservation, Conservation, and Business Interests Collide 290

11. National Park Preservation, Racism, and Business Relations 328

12. Nation Building, Racial Exclusion, and the Social Construction of Wildlands 350

Conclusion 383

Notes 399

References 407

Index 465

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-8223-6198-1 / 0822361981
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6198-5 / 9780822361985
Zustand	Neuware