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American wilderness : a new history / edited by Michael Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- 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.
- United States--Environmental conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness from first contact onwards. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the text gathers competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; One: American Wilderness: An Introduction; Two: American Wilderness and First Contact; Three: Religion ""Irradiates"" the Wilderness; Four: Farm against Forest; Five: Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau; Six: The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of ""Nature's Nation""; Seven: Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents; Eight: A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservationism; Nine: Gender and Wilderness Conservation
- Ten: Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness IdeaEleven: Loving the Wild in Postwar America; Twelve: Wilderness and Conservation Science; Thirteen: Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept; Fourteen: The Politics of Modern Wilderness; Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality; Recommended Readings; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771132-4
- 0-19-988396-3
- 1-281-52903-6
- 9786611529031
- 0-19-803882-8
- 1-4294-6068-7
- OCLC:
- 476239781
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