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<div align="center"><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental <br>
and Agricultural History<br>
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<div align="center">“The Peasant in the City: Immigration and
Environmental Reform in Progressive America”<br>
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Adam Rome<br>
Associate Professor of History, Penn State University <br>
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In the decades around 1900, native-born Americans and immigrants fought a
variety of battles about environmental issues. Wildlife
conservationists sought to restrict hunting by alien pothunters. In
cities and industrial towns, reformers tried to force immigrants to give
up peasant ways of relating to the environment. Educators and
philanthropists pressed immigrant children to develop a modern
appreciation of nature. Though some immigrants resisted the
reformers, others accepted the argument that they could not truly become
Americans until they adopted American ideas about the environment.
The story of these struggles reveals much about important questions in
both environmental and immigration history.<br>
<div align="center"><b>Friday, November 3, 2006<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
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Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact
Margo Collett at
<a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a><br>
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