[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, FRIDAY 11-3-06

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental
and Agricultural History

"The Peasant in the City: Immigration and Environmental Reform in 
Progressive America"

Adam Rome
Associate Professor of History, Penn State University


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.
Friday, November 3, 2006
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095

Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, 
Technology, and Society
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact 
Margo Collett at <mailto:mcollet at mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu
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