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Powell’s Vanishing America is a bracing and innovative revision of early conservation history in the United States. By blending environmental history with intellectual and cultural history, Powell unearths a troubling story of how and why some Americans wanted to save nature as well as their own racial privilege.
Nov 14, 2016 · 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.
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- 2016
- Miles A. Powell
- $44.00
Nov 14, 2016 · Miles A. Powell. Harvard University Press, Nov 14, 2016 - History - 251 pages. Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness...
Jun 1, 2018 · By using the topic of species extinction as a wedge to break open an evolving nexus of ideas connected to race, science, culture, and “nature,” Powell “attempts both to expose the racial ideas underlying modern environmentalism and to carve out a place for the environment in the history of American race-making” (p. 6).
- Kevin Adams
- 2018
Nov 14, 2016 · 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.
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- Hardcover
A cultural and intellectual history of white men who had the means to shape racial and environmental policies, Vanishing America is structured by two key moments: the rise of a US conservation movement in the mid-nineteenth century and the emergence of post–World War II environmentalism.
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...
