Theodore Roosevelt Conservation And The 1908 Governors Conference

Author : Leroy G. Dorsey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623494001

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Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governors' Conference by Leroy G. Dorsey Pdf

Among Theodore Roosevelt’s many initiatives, one of the most important accomplishments was his effort to convince the nation that conserving the environment was crucial to its continued existence. Years of national tours, presidential edicts, and policy wrangling culminated in an unprecedented conference of governors at the White House in 1908. Leroy G. Dorsey explores the rhetorical power of Roosevelt’s address at this historic conservation summit, specifically examining how the president popularized the notion of conservation in the public consciousness. Much has been written on Roosevelt’s conservation policy, but surprisingly little attention has been given to this pivotal moment in the rhetorical rally on its behalf. This book fills an important void in the history of conservation for all who seek a deeper understanding of a president so identified as a champion of the environment.

Author : Charlotte Alme Wittwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Governors' Conference
ISBN : WISC:89015179211

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The 1908 White House Governors' Conference by Charlotte Alme Wittwer Pdf

Author : W. J. McGee,W J McGee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013691088

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Proceedings of a Conference of Governors in the White House, Washington, D.C., May 13-15, 1908 by W. J. McGee,W J McGee Pdf

Author : W. J. McGee
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 0405045190

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Proceedings of a Conference of Governors in the White House, Washington, D.C., May 13-15, 1908 by W. J. McGee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116501347

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 5485 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780123847201

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Encyclopedia of Biodiversity by Anonim Pdf

The 7-volume Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Second Edition maintains the reputation of the highly regarded original, presenting the most current information available in this globally crucial area of research and study. It brings together the dimensions of biodiversity and examines both the services it provides and the measures to protect it. Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity. The science of biodiversity has become the science of our future. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning areas of both physical and life sciences. Our awareness of the loss of biodiversity has brought a long overdue appreciation of the magnitude of this loss and a determination to develop the tools to protect our future. Second edition includes over 100 new articles and 226 updated articles covering this multidisciplinary field— from evolution to habits to economics, in 7 volumes The editors of this edition are all well respected, instantly recognizable academics operating at the top of their respective fields in biodiversity research; readers can be assured that they are reading material that has been meticulously checked and reviewed by experts Approximately 1,800 figures and 350 tables complement the text, and more than 3,000 glossary entries explain key terms

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045393977

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National Conservation Anniversary Commission by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : UCAL:$B1723

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Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Willard M. Oliver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442265042

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The Birth of the FBI by Willard M. Oliver Pdf

Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore Roosevelt. In The Birth of the FBI: Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Fight Over America's Premier Law Enforcement Agency, Willard Oliver details the political fight that led to the birth of America’s premier law enforcement agency. Roosevelt was concerned about conservation and one issue he wanted enforced were the fraudulent land deals being perpetrated by many people, including some members of Congress. When he began using the Secret Service to investigate these crimes, Congress blocked him from doing so. The end result of this political spat was Roosevelt’s creation of the FBI, which heightened the political row between the two branches of government in the final year of Roosevelt’s presidency. The truth of the matter is, the premier law enforcement agency in the United States was actually created because of a political fight between the executive and legislative branches of government. The Birth of the FBI reveals the true story behind the birth of the FBI and provides some useful insight into an important part of our American history.

Author : Ira Chernus,Randall Fowler
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700635641

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Something to Fear by Ira Chernus,Randall Fowler Pdf

A presidency unlike any other, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s legacy in foreign affairs has been contested since the day of his passing. Few presidential statements have echoed through history like FDR’s charge to conquer “fear itself.” Yet immediately after the end of World War II, the United States was gripped by a pervasive sense of national insecurity. In Something to Fear, Ira Chernus and Randall Fowler demonstrate that Roosevelt’s rhetoric, vision, and policies promoted a broadly defined sense of American security over a period of thirty-three years, ultimately helping elevate security to its primacy in US political discourse by the end of his presidency. In doing so, however, he also heightened the prominence of insecurity in American public life, mediating the United States’ transition to superpower status in a way that also elevated fear in debates over foreign affairs. FDR’s presidency precipitated a complex shift in US foreign policy that defies any straightforward account organized along a linear isolationist-to-interventionist trajectory. Chernus and Fowler investigate the uncertainties and contradictions embedded in FDR’s presidential rhetoric, which drew from realist, racial, progressive, nostalgic, apocalyptic, liberal internationalist, and American exceptionalist discourses. In this way, Roosevelt’s rhetoric anticipated the ambivalences contained in American adventures abroad ever since. Something to Fear shows how FDR’s response to the Great Depression, the debates over intervention, and World War II left an immense rhetorical legacy that often stressed insecurity. This study of FDR’s entire political career also carefully links him to the Progressive Era before his presidency and to the Cold War era after it.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022384542

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700634798

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For the Enjoyment of the People by Mary E. Stuckey Pdf

National parks are widely revered as “America’s best idea”—they are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American presidents use these parks to stake their claims to environmentalism, assert a singular national history, and define a unified national identity, often doing so inside the parks themselves. However, the establishment and history of almost every national park has been riddled with conflict over competing claims to land, knowledge, and economic interests. Like any major area of public policy, the fissures present in debates over the national parks also represent important fracture lines in the public understanding of the meaning of America and of individual claims to citizenship. The park system, in other words, does a lot of political work for both presidents and the mass public, even though much of that work goes largely unnoticed. This book explores that political work by addressing themes of national origins and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples; monuments to the national past, heritage, and the assertion of a national narrative; environmentalism and natural resources; and exploitation of the national landscape for economic gain. In For the Enjoyment of the People, Mary Stuckey looks at the politics of the parks as well as what the parks can teach us about citizenship and what it means to be American. Stuckey asserts that through the national parks we can hope to explain the past, clarify the present, and project the future. Combining interdisciplinary conversations about tourism, public memory, national history, park history, the presidency, and national identity, Stuckey contributes insightful ideas to the conversation on the history of national parks while examining the natural, military, and patriotic nature of America’s best idea.

Author : Franklin Kalinowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349948987

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America's Environmental Legacies by Franklin Kalinowski Pdf

This powerful book focuses on the capacity of the American political system to respond to ecological challenges through policy perspectives, the constraints of our written Constitution, and the determination we muster to address these tests of national character. Put simply, this is a book about politics, policy, and political will. Kalinowski brilliantly shows that America’s collective will is found in the cultural values enunciated by the Founding Fathers and passed down through history with modifications. It comprises the essential missing ingredient in determining how we currently respond to crises. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison had distinct ideas concerning the role that Nature might play in the future. Recognizing the origins and impacts of their environmental legacies is the key to interpreting where American environmental politics is today, how we got here, and where we might be headed.

Author : Barbara Schneider
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817320959

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Corporal Rhetoric by Barbara Schneider Pdf

"Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction"--

Author : Paul S. Sutter
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295989907

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Driven Wild by Paul S. Sutter Pdf

In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country�s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.