Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation

Powell, Miles A

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Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation
Autor: Powell, Miles A
Assuntos: Environmentalism ; Extinction (Biology) ; Racism
Descrição: Miles Powell explores how early conservationists became convinced that the vitality of America's white races depended on preserving the wilderness. Some conservationists embraced scientific racism, eugenics, and restrictive immigration laws, but these activists also laid the groundwork for the many successes of the modern environmental movement.
Editor: Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2016
Formato: 260
Idioma: Inglês

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