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Author Powell, Miles A., 1981- author.

Title Vanishing America : species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation / Miles A. Powell.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations
text file
PDF
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-240) and index.
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
Summary 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 identified with the nation's dwindling wildlife. Fearing they would share Indians' anticipated extinction, elite environmental pundits developed racially-charged preservationist arguments that influenced the development of scientific racism, eugenics, immigration restriction, and population control, and which still inform the modern environmental movement. Vanishing America suggests that a long history of drawing connections between environmental health and the mental and physical wellbeing of white Americans has helped create an enduring divide between the nation's environmental movement, on the one hand, and the nation's poor people and nonwhite races on the other -- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English.
Subject Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Environmentalism.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Extinction (Biology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Extinction (Biology)
Social aspects.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Powell, Miles A. Vanishing America. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, ©2016 9780674971561
ISBN 9780674972957 (electronic book)
0674972953 (electronic book)
9780674971561
0674971566
0674972937
9780674972933
Standard No. 10.4159/9780674972957