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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Tyrrell, Ian R. Crisis of the wasteful nation (DLC) 2014023240 (OCoLC)871670487 |
Named Person: | Theodore Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian R Tyrrell |
ISBN: | 9780226197937 022619793X |
OCLC Number: | 896701831 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Ian Tyrrell. |
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"Tyrrell is the most insightful and significant scholar of transnational US history. In Crisis of the Wasteful Nation he shows again that the enduring theme of American exceptionalism is best examined and revised through global comparative and transnational contexts. This is an important, new, and nuanced framing of the interrelated realms of natural resource use, physical health, and national strength." (David Wrobel, University of Oklahoma)" Read more...


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