Author: Dorceta E. Taylor File Type: pdf In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish forest conservation outdoor recreation and the movements links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban eliteswhose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native landsthe movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movements competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways. **Review The Rise of the American Conservation Movement is a daunting, ambitious, and comprehensive presentation and analysis of U.S. environmental history like none other. Dorceta E. Taylor amasses a wealth of data, including rich and moving biographies of people across the racial, class, and gender spectrum who played critical roles in shaping environmental thought and action in this country. This book will inspire you to reconsider nearly everything you think you know about environmental history. (David Naguib Pellow, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara) Pulling together a quarter-century of groundbreaking work, Dorceta E. Taylor unearths, documents, and examines the disproportionate price that low-income communities and people of color pay for our environmental ills. She lays bare the failings of our government and the environmental community to adequately address the inequities at the heart of widespread environmental injustice. And she shows how we can confront those shortcomings, strengthen the environmental safety net, and improve the quality of our democracy by making this movement look, think, and sound more like the nation it serves. (Rhea Suh, president, the Natural Resources Defense Council) About the Author Dorceta E. Taylor is James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s1900s Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change, also published by Duke University Press, andToxic Communities Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility, and the editor of Environment and Social Justice An International Perspective.

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Author: Gary Grieve-Carlson File Type: pdf Ezra Pounds definition of an epic as a poem containing history raises questions how can a poem contain history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional historiography cannot? Poems Containing History Twentieth-Century American Poetrys Engagement with the Past, by Gary Grieve-Carlson, argues that twentieth-century American poetry has contained and helped its readers to think about history in a variety of provocative and powerful ways. Tracing the discussion of the relationship between poetry and history from Aristotles Poetics to Norman Mailers The Armiesof the Night and Hayden Whites Metahistory, the book shows that even as history evolves into a professional, academic discipline in the late nineteenth century, and as its practitioners emphasize the scientific aspects of their work and minimize its literary aspects, twentieth-century American poets continue to take history as the subject of their major poems. Sometimes they endorse the views of mainstream historians, as Stephen Vincent Benet does in John Browns Body, but more often they challenge them, as do Robert Penn Warren in Brother to Dragons, Ezra Pound in TheCantos, or Charles Olson in TheMaximus Poems. In Conquistador, Archibald MacLeish illustrates Aristotles claim that poetry tells more philosophical truths about the past than history does, while in Paterson, William Carlos Williams develops a Nietzschean suspicion of historys value. Three major American poetsT. S. Eliot in Four Quartets, Hart Crane in TheBridge, and Carolyn Forche in The Angel of Historypresent different challenges to professional historiographys assumption that the past is best understood in strictly material terms. Poems Containing History devotes chapters to each of these poets and offers a clear sense of the seriousness with which American poetry has engaged the past, as well as the great variety of those engagements.

Author: Lotje de Vries File Type: pdf Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser known cases into comparative perspective, covering Biafra, Katanga, Eritrea and South Sudan alongside Barotseland, Cabinda, and the Comoros, among others. Suggesting that African secessionism can be understood through the categories of aspiration, grievance, performance, and disenchantment, the books analytical framework promises to be a building block for future studies of the topic. **From the Back Cover Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser known cases into comparative perspective, covering Biafra, Katanga, Eritrea and South Sudan alongside Barotseland, Cabinda, and the Comoros, among others. Suggesting that African secessionism can be understood through the categories of aspiration, grievance, performance, and disenchantment, the books analytical framework promises to be a building block for future studies of the topic. About the Author Lotje de Vries is Assistant Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Pierre Englebert is H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations at Pomona College, USA.**** Mareike Schomerus is Senior Research Fellow at Overseas Development Institute, UK.****