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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) :; 26 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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