| Description |
xiv, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Northeastern Frontier -- 2. The Commons in Transition -- 3. Nature in the New Agrarian Landscape -- 4. Common Stewardship and Private Forests -- 5. Conflicting Rights in Fisheries -- 6. The Politics of Interstate Fisheries -- 7. Forging a Conservation Ethic -- 8. The Romantic Landscapes of Tourism -- 9. Tradition and Science in the Coastal Fisheries |
| Summary |
Unlike earlier attempts to describe the conservation movement in its historical context, which have often assumed a crude dualism in attitudes toward nature - democracy versus monopoly, amateur versus professional, utilitarian versus aesthete - this study reveals a complex set of motives and inspirations behind the mid-nineteenth-century drive to conserve natural resources. Judd suggests that a more complex set of contending and complementary social forces was at work, including traditional folk values, an emerging science of resource management, and constantly shifting class interests. Common Lands, Common People tells us that ordinary people, struggling to define and redefine the morality of land and resource use, contributed immensely to America's conservation legacy |
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In this innovative study of the rise of the conservation ethic in northern New England, Richard Judd shows that the movement that eventually took hold throughout America had its roots in the communitarian ethic of countrypeople rather than among urban intellectuals or politicians. Drawing on journals and archival sources such as legislative petitions, Judd demonstrates that debates over access to and use of forests and water, though couched in utilitarian terms, drew their strength and conviction from deeply held popular notions of properly ordered landscapes and common rights to nature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-328) and index |
| Subject |
Commons -- New England -- Management -- History.
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Conservation of natural resources -- New England -- History.
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Fishes -- Conservation -- New England -- History.
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Natural resources, Communal -- New England -- Management -- History.
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| LC no. |
96046635 |
| ISBN |
067414581X (alk. paper) |
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