Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progrssive Era Conservation Movement - Rilegato

Rimby, Susan

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ISBN 10: 027105624X ISBN 13: 9780271056241

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Susan Rimby is Professor of History at Shippensburg University.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 027105624X
• ISBN 13: 9780271056241
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile