The White Man’s Burden, Soil Erosion, and the Origins of Green Capitalism

2018 ◽  
pp. 74-95
Author(s):  
Hannah Holleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The World ◽  
Agricultural Societies ◽  
Green Capitalism ◽  
White Settlers

This chapter presents evidence that knowledge of both the dangers presented by soil erosion and the means to successfully address it exist deep in the memory and experience of agricultural societies and were understood by the white settlers who colonized North America. Yet, even as knowledge of the problem and efforts to contain it in the United States and around the world grew, so did the erosion crisis. As the erosion crisis developed in colonial societies, addressing its root causes was out of the question for those in charge because doing so “may well require a social and political revolution.” Colonial officials and colonists could not consider the radical social change needed to address the root cause of extreme socio-ecological crises because such change would threaten the racialized colonial social order. This is the denial represented by green capitalist and colonial approaches to ecological problems, which dominated early conservationists' attempts to address soil erosion.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1971 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 22-35
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Growth

Developments in the world economy have on the whole been much as we predicted in February. It is becoming increasingly clear that renewed expansion is under way in the United States at a pace which, even if it falls short of the Administration's hopes, is more than compensating for the slowing down in industrial countries outside North America. This deceleration has become quite marked in Japan as well as Western Europe, but we expect a faster pace to be resumed before the end of the year. We still put real growth in OECD countries at around 4 per cent in 1971, unless there is a prolonged steel strike in the United States. This compares with about 2½ per cent last year, and we expect the rising trend to continue into 1972.

Early Encounters in Bimusicality

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A Clendinning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Early Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Music ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Music Ensemble ◽  
World’S Fairs

The chapter presents an overview of the introduction of gamelan to North America and examines how the ensembles assumed a key role within the philosophy and practice of American collegiate world music education. Musical and cultural exhibitions at world’s fairs, the dispersion of early recordings of gamelan music, transnational performance tours, and the work of Western composers and pedagogues led to the importation of instruments and founding of early academic gamelans. The world music ensemble programs modeled after those founded at UCLA by Mantle Hood embodied a new and important paradigm in ethnomusicology termed bimusicality, as well as sparking the collegiate world music ensemble movement. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the current gamelan scene in the United States that reconnects the early development of academic gamelan ensembles to contemporary artistic and educational practices.

Explaining the Rise of Globalization

Free Traders ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Malcolm Fairbrother
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
North America ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Electoral Incentives ◽  
The World

This chapter summarizes the main themes of this book, and the theory it proposes of why the governments of so many nations around the world decided to globalize their economies in the late 20th century. The book asks whether the foundations of globalization were democratic, in the sense that politicians’ decisions derived from public opinion and electoral incentives, and also whether globalization as based on mainstream economic ideas. As shown by the cases of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and the ways they established free trade in North America, the book shows that globalization has been more of an elite than a democratic project, and one based on folk economics rather than expert ideas. Business has been the motor force in developed countries; in developing countries, states have acted more autonomously from domestic business, but they have been more subject to pressure from international financial institutions.

Global Violence of Women in Cults

2019 ◽  
pp. 343-368
Author(s):  
Doni Whitsett ◽  
Natasha Post Rosow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
North America ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Attachment Trauma ◽  
Medical Neglect ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This chapter focuses on the experiences of women in high demand groups, also known as “cults.” Despite the chapter’s regional focus on North America, particularly the United States, this is a transnational phenomenon with satellite communities throughout the world. The chapter provides a brief history of cults in the United States and highlights the various abuses to which women are subjected, from psychological abuses such as medical neglect, loss of reproductive rights, separation from children, and attachment trauma to physical and sexual violence. The chapter also discusses legal obstacles to remedying these human rights violations, provides resources for assistance, and makes suggestions for advocacy.

scholarly journals II.—The Twelfth International Geological Congress in Canada

1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 486-490
Author(s):  
B. Hobson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
The World ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
International Geological ◽  
International Geological Congress ◽  
The Right ◽  
General Secretary

At the Stockholm meeting of the Congress in 1910 an invitation to hold the twelfth meeting in Canada was accepted. As the Congress met in the United States in 1891 and in Mexico in 1906, members were thus afforded an opportunity of visiting all the great divisions of North America. The Canadian meeting was held at Toronto from August 7 to 14, 1913, under the presidency of Professor F. D. Adams, of McGill University. About 600 members attended it, although the total enrolled was nearly twice as great, and 46 countries were represented among the members. The Congress was formally opened by the Right Hon. Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, on behalf of H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, the Honorary President, who was unavoidably absent, and speeches of welcome were made by others. Dr. R. W. Brock, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada and General Secretary of the Congress, presented to the Congress a monograph entitled “The Coal Resources of the World”, the result of an inquiry made upon the initiative of the Executive Committee of the Twelfth Congress, with the assistance of Geological Surveys and mining geologists of different countries. It consists of three quarto volumes of about 400 pages each (11 by 8 1¼4 inches) and an atlas of 66 pages of maps in colours (13 1¼2 by 191¼2 inches) published by Morang & Co., of Toronto, at $25 per set, net.

scholarly journals I.—American “Surface Geology,” and its Relation to British. With some Remarks on the Glacial Conditions in Britain, especially in Reference to the “Great Ice Age” of Mr. James Geikie

1877 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 481-496
Author(s):  
Searles V. Wood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life History ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Surface Geology

From no part of the world have we of late years derived more additions to the Geological Record than from North America. Besides important additions to the earliest pages of that record, the rich collections made by the United States Surveyors, both of fauna and flora, from the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene deposits, have thrown much light upon the life history of the Earth; and it is even contended that they have bridged over the interval which, notwithstanding the Maestricht beds, the Pisolitic, and the Faxoe Limestones, still remains sharply marked between the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of Europe so far as they have yet been examined.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1972 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 26-39
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
North America ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Real Output ◽  
Sharp Rise ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The World

Production in the industrial countries has been increasing a little faster than we suggested in May—notably in the United States, where there was a sharp rise in the rate of economic growth in the second quarter. But our forecast of the growth in the aggregate real output of the members of OECD is still in the 5-5½ per cent range for this year. We put it a little higher for 1973, when we expect a slightly slower rate of expansion in North America to be outweighed by faster growth in Japan and Western Europe.

Introduction: Reversing Language Shift in Indigenous America—Collaborations and Views from the Field

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa McCarty ◽  
Lucille Watahomigie ◽  
Akira Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
European Contact ◽  
The World

Throughout the Western hemisphere—indeed, throughout the world—indigenous languages are being displaced at an alarming rate. While no one knows precisely how many languages were spoken in North America prior to European contact, estimates range from 300 to 600. In what is now the United States and Canada, the number is now reduced to 210. In some respects, this is a story of remarkable resilience and resistance. But numbers alone belie the fragility of these languages and their prospects for survival.

“If It's Yellow, It Must Be Butter”: Margarine Regulation in North America Since 1886

1999 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Dupré
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Group Theory ◽  
North America ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Food Products ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Domestic Food

The first domestic food to be regulated by the federal government in the United States, margarine had a unique regulation history. No other food products has been so harshly treated throughtout the world. The American margarine policy up to the 1950s is generally considered remarkably severe. The Canadian policy was even more stringent and more enduring. The province of Quebec, and until very recently of Ontario, still prohibits the yellow coloring of margarine. This article compares the history of margarine regulation in the two countries and uses the interest-group theory of government to investigate why it was so stringent.

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