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Overview"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-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U.S. westward expansion, coupled with industry's ever-growing hunger for natural resources, presaged the disappearance of Indian peoples. Yet, as the frontier drew to a close, some naturalists chronicling the loss of animal and plant populations began to worry that white Americans might soon share the Indians' presumed fate. Miles Powell explores how early conservationists such as George Perkins Marsh, William Temple Hornaday, and Aldo Leopold became convinced that the continued vitality of America's ""Nordic"" and ""Anglo-Saxon"" races depended on preserving the wilderness. Fears over the destiny of white Americans drove some conservationists to embrace scientific racism, eugenics, and restrictive immigration laws. Although these activists laid the groundwork for the modern environmental movement and its many successes, the consequences of their racial anxieties persist." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Miles A. PowellPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.616kg ISBN: 9780674971561ISBN 10: 0674971566 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 14 November 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsPowell s history of the inseparability of environmental and racial anxieties tackles an essential question that has always haunted American environmentalism why so white? and that requires an insightful history like this one to fully understand.--Jennifer Price, author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America Author InformationMiles A. Powell is Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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