Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England

by Richard W. Judd

Book Overview

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 among the communitarian ethic of countrypeople rather than among urban intellectuals or politicians. Drawing on agricultural journals and archival sources such as legislative petitions, Judd demonstrates that debates over access to and use of forests and water, though...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674004167
• ISBN13: 9780674004160
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"