Vanishing America : species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation /

Vanishing America examines discourses of extinction - of species and of peoples - to identify key transitions in American environmental and racial thought between the mid nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. By 1900 many whites had begun to see themselves as an imperiled race and increasingly ide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Powell, Miles A., 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016
Temas:
1800-1999
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.
Extinction (Biologie) > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
HISTORY / United States / General
Environmentalism
Racism
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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