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Cultural Imperialism
the forceful domination of one society that results in a loss of culture
Hegemony
The predominant influence of one culture over another
Syncretism
The blending of elements from two cultures that results in something new
The change in Native American concepts of land tenure is an example of
Cultural imperialism
The Ghost Dance is an example of
Syncretism
The concept of Ecological Indian assumes...
Consciously conserved resources and a deep ecological knowledge.
Date of the Constitutional Convention
September 17, 1787
Three clauses that provide the basis for environmental laws
Property clause, Treaty clause, and Commerce clause
Thomas Jefferson
Articulated the origin of the theory of race in America
Racial Nadir dates
1890-1920
Native American land tenure
usufructary rights and sovereignty
European land tenure
Improvement, property rights, and exclusive rights
Cronon's thesis
City and country share a common history, Chicago in the second half of the 19th century best illustrates these linkages.
Shallower history
optimistic, heroification, triumphalism, feed good Disney history
Deep History
facts, varying viewpoints, open-endedness, skepticism,
Historiography
the history of history, how and why our history changes through time.
Turner's Frontier Thesis
The history of America is the history of colonizing the west. This colonizing of the west shaped the American character and values of individualism, optimism, and democratic values.
Magnolia Myth
slaves are happy and that there is harmony and grace between slaves and slave owners.
Racial nadir
when racism in the country is deemed to have been worse than in any other period after the American Civil War. 1890-1920
Laissez faire political economy
Doctrine of non interference (hands off),
People making their own fortune and people have the right to sell their labor the way they want.
No workers comp, no regulation
2 Progressive Movements besides Conservation

When was the Progressive Era?
Federal gove as Post office, land office, military.
Questions arised concerned with welath and power vs. good of the people.
Upward shift in control from state to federal.
1890-1920
Munn vs. Illinois
1877, Munn challenged the warehouse act as unconstitutional. Saying that private property affect with a public interest.
Landscape of Mutual Advantage
convergence of economy and ecology, (supply and demand, prairies and forests)
Economic relations and value depend on 1st nature.
Key tenets in Progressive Conservation
1st Environmental Movement in America
- Efficiency (using the resources efficiently in order to keep up with demand), expertise (using expert opinion to utilize resources for the greatest yield), order (control over resources and who delegates what resources)
Gifford Pinchot
created the Forest Service in 1905. major influence on forestry. Forest Gump of the Progressive Era
Ideologies of the Progressive Conservation Movement
utilitarian conservation, scientific management, public ownership
Prior appropriation
first in time, first in right
Water rights of the West
Riparian rights
when using the water, need to return it in relatively the same amount and quality.
Geography of Capital
tracing the flow of capital, Chicago and its financial hinterland
Illustrates the reach of the markets, bankruptcy records as primary source of data.
Gateway City
the city as chief intermediary, asymmetrical, oblong/ elongated hinterlands.
Buying and Selling Implications and Paradox
implications: markets reach intro culture, advanced civilization, progress, material well being
paradox: city and country brought closer yet the relationship product and source is more obscure.
Suburb
a place with no labor.
pastoral attributes of the country combined with the luxuires of the city.
Factors leading to the Dust Bowl
Environmental circumstances (climate, elimination of natural vegetation, extreme drought), misguided science (thought anything could bring the rain), social and political drive (manifest destiny; homestead ethic)
New Deal Conservation
America's 2nd Conservation movement: soil conservation
private lands, incentives and regulations
technical assistance, information, education
Hugh Hammond Bennett
The father of soil conservation
Constitutional Revolution
protecting lessea faire, protect fundamental individual rights
Modern Environmental Movement
3rd conservation movement
mass movement, broader concerns, more federal legislation, backlash movement
" aesthetic conservation movement", national parks, outdoor recreation.
Backlash/ Wise Use Property Rights
1988, blame the environmental movement for trashing the economy to save the planet. advocate protection of private property rights.
Progress
the steady improvement as of a society or civilization, advancement toward a higher or better stage.
Spaceship vs. Frontier mentality.
Spaceship: finite resources, exhaustible, closed system, sustainability, waste stays
Frontier: infinite resources, inexhaustible, open system, technology for substitutes, each generation will have a better standard of living.
Tragedy of the Commons
the commons- ownership rights are not existent or are ill defined. freedom to act in self interest brings run to all.