The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0822361981 ISBN13: 9780822361985 Release Date: August 2016 Publisher: Duke University Press Length: 496 Pages Weight: 1.55 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0" 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, wo