Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

by Ian Tyrrell and Ian Tyrrell

Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as wood, water, soil, coal, and oil, as well as improvements in human health and the protection of "nature" in an aesthetic sense, were collectively seen for the first time as central to the country's economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022619776X
• ISBN13: 9780226197760
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"