Vanishing America : : Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation / / Miles A. Powell.
Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties—specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America’s vigor and stamina. Nineteenth-...
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Powell, Miles A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Vanishing America : Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation / Miles A. Powell. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017] ©2016 1 online resource (262 p.) : 26 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. A Nation’s Park, Containing Man and Beast -- 1. Surviving Progress -- 2. Preserving the Frontier -- 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent -- 4. The Last of Her Tribe -- 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much -- Epilogue. De-Extinction -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties—specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America’s vigor and stamina. Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U.S. westward expansion, coupled with industry’s ever-growing hunger for natural resources, presaged the disappearance of Indian peoples. Yet, as the frontier drew to a close, some naturalists chronicling the loss of animal and plant populations began to worry that white Americans might soon share the Indians’ presumed fate. Miles Powell explores how early conservationists such as George Perkins Marsh, William Temple Hornaday, and Aldo Leopold became convinced that the continued vitality of America’s “Nordic” and “Anglo-Saxon” races depended on preserving the wilderness. Fears over the destiny of white Americans drove some conservationists to embrace scientific racism, eugenics, and restrictive immigration laws. Although these activists laid the groundwork for the modern environmental movement and its many successes, the consequences of their racial anxieties persist. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Environmentalism United States History 19th century. Environmentalism United States History 20th century. Extinction (Biology) Social aspects United States History. Racism United States History 19th century. Racism United States History 20th century. HISTORY / United States / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110638585 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674972957 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674972957 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674972957.jpg |
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