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American wilderness : a new history / edited by Michael Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--United States--History.
- Human ecology.
- Geographical perception--United States.
- Geographical perception.
- Wilderness areas--United States--Public opinion.
- Wilderness areas.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States.
- Human beings.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- Environmental conditions.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Environmental conditions.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Pres, 2007.
- Summary:
- This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.
- Contents:
- American wilderness / Michael Lewis
- American wilderness and first contact / Melanie Perreault
- Religion "irradiates" the wilderness / Mark Stoll
- Farm against forest / Steven Stoll
- Natural history, romanticism, and Thoreau / Bradley P. Dean
- The fate of wilderness in American landscape art: the dilemmas of "nature's nation" / Angela Miller
- Wilderness parks and their discontents / Benjamin Johnson
- A Sylvan prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and early twentieth-century conservationism / Char Miller
- Gender and wilderness conservation / Kimberly A. Jarvis
- Putting wilderness in context: the interwar origins of the modern wilderness idea / Paul Sutter
- Loving the wild in postwar America / Mark Harvey
- Wilderness and conservation science / Michael Lewis
- Creating wild places from domesticated landscapes: the internationalization of American wilderness concept / Christopher Conte
- The politics of modern wilderness / James Morton Turner
- Nature, liberty, and equality / Donald Worster.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195174151
- 9780195174151
- 0195174143
- 9780195174144
- OCLC:
- 70122608
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