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

By: Dorceta E Taylor(Author)
496 pages
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
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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 colour, 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.

Contents

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

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Biography

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.

By: Dorceta E Taylor(Author)
496 pages
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"The Rise of the American Conservation Movement is a daunting, ambitious, and comprehensive presentation and analysis of U.S. environmental history like none other. Dorceta E. Taylor amasses a wealth of data, including rich and moving biographies of people across the racial, class, and gender spectrum who played critical roles in shaping environmental thought and action in this country. This book will inspire you to reconsider nearly everything you think you know about environmental history."
– David Naguib Pellow, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara

"Pulling together a quarter-century of groundbreaking work, Dorceta E. Taylor unearths, documents, and examines the disproportionate price that low-income communities and people of color pay for our environmental ills. She lays bare the failings of our government and the environmental community to adequately address the inequities at the heart of widespread environmental injustice. And she shows how we can confront those shortcomings, strengthen the environmental safety net, and improve the quality of our democracy by making this movement look, think, and sound more like the nation it serves."
– Rhea Suh, president, the Natural Resources Defense Council

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