كتاب
Crisis of the wasteful nation: empire and conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America
| العنوان: | Crisis of the wasteful nation: empire and conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America |
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| المؤلفون: | Tyrrell, Ian R., author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History., Conservation of natural resources -- Government policy -- United States. |
| Subject Person: | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Knowledge -- Conservation of natural resources., Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. |
| الوصف: | This study examines rising alarm over waste of natural resources, and its use by Theodore Roosevelt and his administration to further objectives of conservation and an American form of empire. These objectives encompassed both preservationist and utilitarian approaches, centred on efficiency, but interpreting efficiency in social and political rather than economic terms. These policies revealed an emerging idea of environmental 'habitability' that presaged modern interest in sustainability. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | The origins of alarm. -- Alarmism and the wasteful nation -- American conservation and the "world movement": networks, personnel, and the international context -- The new empire and the rise of conservation. -- Colonies, natural resources, and geopolitical thought in the new empire -- Encountering the tropical world: the impact of empire -- Energy and empire: shadows of the fossil fuel revolution -- Dynamic geography: irrigation, waterways, and the inland empire -- The problem of the soils and the problem of the toilers -- Conservation, scenery, and the sustainability of nature -- Lessons for living: Irving Fisher, national vitality, and human conservation -- The global vision of Theodore Roosevelt and its fate. -- To the halls of Europe: the African safari and Roosevelt's campaign to conserve nature (while killing it) -- Something big: Theodore Roosevelt and global conservation -- "A senseless and mischievous fad?": from alarm to sobriety as a nation takes stock -- Epilogue. The present, the future, and the power of contingency in human life. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn871670487 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-226-19776-0 0-226-19776-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014302099.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780226197760 022619776X |
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