Public Lands And Political Meaning

Author : Karen R. Merrill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520926889
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Lands and Political Meaning written by Karen R. Merrill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict between ranchers and the federal government over public grazing lands. Drawing upon neglected sources from organized ranchers, this is the first book to provide a historically based explanation for why the relationship between ranchers and the federal government became so embattled long before modern environmentalists became involved in the issue. Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration, Public Lands and Political Meaning traces the history of the political dynamics between ranchers and federal land agencies, giving us a new look at the relations of power that made the modern West. Although a majority of organized ranchers supported government control of the range at the turn of the century, by midcentury these same organizations often used a virulently antifederal discourse that fueled many a political fight in Washington and that still runs deep in American politics today. In analyzing this shift, Merrill shows how profoundly people's ideas about property wove their way into the political language of the debates surrounding public range policy. As she unravels the meaning of this language, Merrill demonstrates that different ideas about property played a crucial role in perpetuating antagonism on both sides of the fence. In addition to illuminating the origins of the "sagebrush rebellions" in the American West, this book also persuasively argues that political historians must pay more attention to public land management issues as a way of understanding tensions in American state-building.

Author : Kathleen M. Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793637075
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Lands in the Western US written by Kathleen M. Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the many ways in which diverse individuals and groups—such as state and federal managers, First Peoples, ranchers, miners, oil and gas extraction industries, sports enthusiasts, environmentalists, local residents, and tourists—actively negotiate, contest, and collaborate on issues regarding public lands in the American West. Tracing these ever-morphing alliances and antagonisms, this volume highlights the recurring patterns within this diverse array of social actors.

Author : Raynor Greenleaf Wellington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book The Political and Sectional Influence of the Public Lands, 1828-1842 written by Raynor Greenleaf Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen R. Merrill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520228626
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Public Lands and Political Meaning written by Karen R. Merrill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration, this book traces the history of the political dynamics between ranchers and federal land agencies.

Author : George Malcolm Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political History of the Public Lands, from 1840 to 1862 written by George Malcolm Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Malcolm Stephenson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book The Political History of the Public Lands from 1840 to 1862 written by George Malcolm Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982763
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Public Lands And Environmental Politics written by Charles Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Harriet Nathan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book America's Public Lands: Politics, Economics, and Administration written by Harriet Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul J. Culhane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135990786
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book Public Lands Politics written by Paul J. Culhane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2011. During the 1970s, land managers in the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) often must have felt they lived in interesting times. The decade began with the first Earth Day, an event that revealed the increasing strength and militancy of the environmental movement; as it ended, western commercial users of the public lands, disaffected by environmentalist policymaking victories, had launched the "sagebrush rebellion." Those managers were expected to reconcile often sharply polarized interest group pressures with professional values, as well as with diverse federal statutes and regulations that reflected uneasy compromises among group and professional influences. Although the technical specifics of public lands management differ from those in other fields of natural resources management, the political tensions in public lands policymaking are similar to those in other natural resources fields. Thus, this description of the Forest Service's xiii xiv PREFACE and BLM's handling of those tensions should be of interest to many in the natural resources management community as a whole. This study should also be useful to students of public administrative politics generally.

Author : Karen R. Merrill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520926882
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Public Lands and Political Meaning written by Karen R. Merrill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict between ranchers and the federal government over public grazing lands. Drawing upon neglected sources from organized ranchers, this is the first book to provide a historically based explanation for why the relationship between ranchers and the federal government became so embattled long before modern environmentalists became involved in the issue. Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration, Public Lands and Political Meaning traces the history of the political dynamics between ranchers and federal land agencies, giving us a new look at the relations of power that made the modern West. Although a majority of organized ranchers supported government control of the range at the turn of the century, by midcentury these same organizations often used a virulently antifederal discourse that fueled many a political fight in Washington and that still runs deep in American politics today. In analyzing this shift, Merrill shows how profoundly people's ideas about property wove their way into the political language of the debates surrounding public range policy. As she unravels the meaning of this language, Merrill demonstrates that different ideas about property played a crucial role in perpetuating antagonism on both sides of the fence. In addition to illuminating the origins of the "sagebrush rebellions" in the American West, this book also persuasively argues that political historians must pay more attention to public land management issues as a way of understanding tensions in American state-building.