320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In l958 Congress awarded the new state over 100 million acres to promote economic development. In 1971, it gave Native groups more than 40 million acres to settle land claims and facilitate the building of an 800-mile oil pipeline. Spurred by the newly militant environmental movement,... Read more
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Washington, December 1980
Part I. Seedtime: Alaska to the 1960s
1. The Emergence of Alaska
2. Conservation in Transition
Part II. Wilderness Politics: Alaska, 1960s-1976
3. Alaska Upheavals
4. Congressional Responses
5. Southeast Alaska and the Wilderness Movement
6. Oil Age Discontents
Part III. The ANILCA Campaign: Alaska and Washington, 1977-1980
7. Congress Deliberates
8. Birth of ANILCA
Postscript: Alaska in the 1980s and Beyond
Notes
Index
Biography
Daniel Nelson is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Akron. His previous publications include Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880-1920 and Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present.
'This detailed description of the conservation history of our 49th state provides valuable context and background. . . .Offers direct, often terse narrative that brings us right into the action and lets us share the often agonizing suspense.' Alaska Report, Sierra Club
