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02868aam a2200361 i 4500 001 E27880ACF5D411E7B33F7C0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180110010212 008 160330t20162016maua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016015041 020 $a 0674971566 020 $a 9780674971561 035 $a (OCoLC)946907198 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d BDX $d HLS $d YDX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 00 $a GE197 $b .P686 2016 082 00 $a 333.720973 $2 23 100 1 $a Powell, Miles A., $d 1981- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016051738 245 10 $a Vanishing America : $b species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation / $c Miles A. Powell. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 251 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a 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.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Environmentalism $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Environmentalism $z United States $x History $y 20th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009103412 650 0 $a Extinction (Biology) $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States $x History $y 19th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010109264 650 0 $a Racism $z United States $x History $y 20th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110370 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213020929.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E27880ACF5D411E7B33F7C0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search