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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Vanishing America
    sub title: species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation
  name:
    name part: Powell, Miles A.
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: A nation's park, containing man and beast -- Surviving progress -- Preserving the frontier -- A line of unbroken descent -- The last of her tribe -- Dead of its own too-much -- Epilogue: De-extinction.
  note: Miles A. Powell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Environmentalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Environmentalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Extinction (Biology)
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: GE197 .P686 2016
  classification: 333.720973
  identifier: 9780674971561
  identifier: 0674971566
  identifier: 2016015041
  record info:
    record content source: MH/DLC
    record creation date: 160330
    record change date: 20170926151223.0
    record identifier: in00003727250