[PDF] The American Conservation Movement eBook

Author : Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0822373971

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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.

Author : Stephen R. Fox
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299106348

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John Muir and His Legacy is at once a biography of this remarkable man--the first work to make unrestricted use of all of Muir's manuscripts and personal papers--and a history of the century-old fight to save the natural environment. Stephen Fox traces the conservation movement's diverse, colorful, and tumultuous history, from the successful campaign to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890 to the movement's present day concerns of nuclear waste and acid rain. Conservation has run a cyclical course, Fox contends, from its origins in the 1890s when it was the province of amateurs, to its takeover by professionals with quasi-scientific notions, and back, in the 1960s to its original impetus. Since then man's view of himself as "the last endangered species" has sparked an explosion of public interest in environmentalism. First published in 1981 by Little, Brown, this book was warmly received as both a biography of Muir and a history of the American conservation movement. It is now available in this new Wisconsin paperback edition.

Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0295803533

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Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming.

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :

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After considering the historical roots of environmentalism from the 1890s through the 1960s, Gottlieb discusses the rise and consolidation of environmental groups in the years between Earth Day 1970 and Earth Day 1990. A comprehensive analysis of the origins of the environmental movement within the American experience.

Author : John F. Reiger
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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"Praised as "one of the seminal works in conservation history" by historian Hal Rothman, Reiger's book continues to be essential reading for all concerned with how earlier Americans regarded the land, demonstrating even to those who oppose hunting that they share with sportsmen and sportswomen an awareness and appreciation of our fragile environment."--Jacket.

Author : Sylvia Whitman
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822517290

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Describes the effects of the discovery of Yellowstone, the Dust Bowl of the 30's, and Earth Day in 1970 on the environmental movement

Author : Andrew G. Kirk
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.

Author : Daniel Anthony
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2017-03-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781548211417

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In this sweeping social history Daniel 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.