Franconia Notch and the Women who Saved it

Franconia Notch and the Women who Saved it
Author: Kimberly A. Jarvis
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781584656272

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An early 20th century case study of evolving grassroots notions of preservation and the role of women in the American conservation movement

Beyond Nature's Housekeepers

Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
Author: Nancy C. Unger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199735069

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This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists.

Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement

Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement
Author: Susan Rimby
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-06-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0271061502

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For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official—the first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania’s state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and Dietrich Brandis to help bring about a new era in American forestry. She was also an integral force in founding and fostering the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy in Mont Alto, which produced generations of Pennsylvania foresters before becoming Penn State's Mont Alto campus. Though much has been written about her male counterparts, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement is the first book dedicated to Mira Lloyd Dock and her work. Susan Rimby weaves these layers of Dock’s story together with the greater historical context of the era to create a vivid and accessible picture of Progressive Era conservation in the eastern United States and Dock’s important role and legacy in that movement.

Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering

Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering
Author: Maurice Isserman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0393292525

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This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself. In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally seen as obstacles to civilization; over time they came to be viewed as places of redemption and renewal. The White Mountains stirred the transcendentalists; the Rockies and Sierras pulled explorers westward toward Manifest Destiny; Yosemite inspired the early environmental conservationists. Climbing began in North America as a pursuit for lone eccentrics but grew to become a mass-participation sport. Beginning with Darby Field in 1642, the first person to climb a mountain in North America, Isserman describes the exploration and first ascents of the major American mountain ranges, from the Appalachians to Alaska. He also profiles the most important American mountaineers, including such figures as John C. Frémont, John Muir, Annie Peck, Bradford Washburn, Charlie Houston, and Bob Bates, relating their exploits both at home and abroad. Isserman traces the evolving social, cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country. He describes how American mountaineers forged a "brotherhood of the rope," modeled on America’s unique democratic self-image that characterized climbing in the years leading up to and immediately following World War II. And he underscores the impact of the postwar "rucksack revolution," including the advances in technique and style made by pioneering "dirtbag" rock climbers. A magnificent, deeply researched history, Continental Divide tells a story of adventure and aspiration in the high peaks that makes a vivid case for the importance of mountains to American national identity.

Evangelicals at a Crossroads

Evangelicals at a Crossroads
Author: Benjamin Loren Hartley
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1584659297

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The story of Boston revivalism and social reform

Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets

Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets
Author: Sally Hirsh-Dickinson
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611682150

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The first full-length scholarly study of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious's classic story of New England indiscretion

Nature Next Door

Nature Next Door
Author: Ellen Stroud
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-12-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0295804459

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The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape. In an examination of the cities and forests of the northeastern United States-with particular attention to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Vermont-Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the twentieth century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns.

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism
Author: Holly J. McCammon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 960
Release: 2017-05-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190204214

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Over the course of thirty-seven chapters, including an editorial introduction, this handbook provides a comprehensive examination of scholarly research and knowledge on a variety of aspects of women's collective activism in the United States, tracing both continuities and critical changes over time. Women have played pivotal and far-reaching roles in bringing about significant societal change, and women activists come from an array of different demographics, backgrounds and perspectives, including those that are radical, liberal, and conservative. The chapters in the handbook consider women's activism in the interest of women themselves as well as actions done on behalf of other social groups. The volume is organized into five sections. The first looks at U.S. Women's Social Activism over time, from the women's suffrage movement to the ERA, radical feminism, third-wave feminism, intersectional feminism and global feminism. Part two looks at issues that mobilize women, including workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, health, gender identity and sexuality, violence against women, welfare and employment, globalization, immigration and anti-feminist and pro-life causes. Part three looks at strategies, including movement emergence and resource mobilization, consciousness raising, and traditional and social media. Part four explores targets and tactics, including legislative forums, electoral politics, legal activism, the marketplace, the military, and religious and educational institutions. Finally, part five looks at women's participation within other movements, including the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, labor unions, LGBTQ movement, Latino activism, conservative groups, and the white supremacist movement.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving
Author: James W. Baker
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1584658746

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The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday

Asian Americans in New England

Asian Americans in New England
Author: Monica Chiu
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1584657944

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The first interdisciplinary contribution to studies about Asian Americans in New England