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UNINA9910463108203321 |
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Alagona Peter S |
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After the grizzly [[electronic resource] ] : endangered species and the politics of place in California / / Peter S. Alagona |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Wildlife conservation - California |
Wildlife conservation - United States |
Endangered species - California |
Endangered species - United States |
Grizzly bear - California |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Land of the Bears -- CHAPTER TWO. A New Movement -- CHAPTER THREE. The Official Landscape -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Laws of Nature -- CHAPTER FIVE. The California Condor. From Controversy to Consensus -- CHAPTER SIX. The Mojave Desert Tortoise. Ambassador for the Outback -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The San Joaquin Kit Fox. The Flagship Fox -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Delta Smelt. Water Politics by Another Name -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. Focusing on the stories of four high-profile endangered species-the California condor, desert tortoise, Delta smelt, and San Joaquin kit fox-Alagona offers an absorbing account of how Americans developed a political system capable of producing and |
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sustaining debates in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century, this book claims, will be to redefine habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes. |
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UNINA9910450161603321 |
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Autore |
Wertheimer Jack |
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Unwelcome strangers [[electronic resource] ] : East European Jews in imperial Germany / / Jack Wertheimer |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987 |
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0-19-802157-7 |
1-280-52527-4 |
1-4237-3733-4 |
1-60129-786-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Studies in Jewish history |
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Jews, East European - Germany - History |
Jews - Germany - History - 1800-1933 |
Jews - Germany - Politics and government |
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Germany Ethnic relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography: p. 250-267 and index. |
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Contents; Introduction; 1 The Challenge of Jewish Mass Migration; 2 Public Debates Over Eastern Jews; 3 Administrative Solutions; 4 Demographic Characteristics; 5 Economic Pursuits; 6 Organizational Activities; 7 In the Maelstrom of Communal Politics; 8 Social and Cultural Tensions; 9 The Posture of Organized German Jewry; Conclusion: A Comparative Perspective; Abbreviations; Appendix: Statistical Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914, both German government officials and the |
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leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges. What policies did government leaders devise to cope with the seemingly unending tide of Jews flooding across Germany's borders? What was the actual, as opposed to the perceived, character of these Jewish migrants? How did native Jews respond to the arrival of coreligionists from the East? Drawing on archival research conducted in East and West Germany, Israel, and the United States, Unwelcome Stra |
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