American wilderness : a new history /
American wilderness : a new history /
edited by Michael Lewis.
- viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index.
Table of contents http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015516247&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA American wilderness: an introduction / 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.
Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present.
0195174151 9780195174151 0195174143 9780195174144
9780195174144 99816406850
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GBA707962 bnb
013655442 Uk
Human ecology--History.--United States
Geographical perception--United States.
Wilderness areas--Public opinion.--United States
Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States.
Public opinion--United States.
United States--Environmental conditions.
GF503 / .A64 2007
304.2
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index.
Table of contents http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015516247&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA American wilderness: an introduction / 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.
Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present.
0195174151 9780195174151 0195174143 9780195174144
9780195174144 99816406850
2006048320
GBA707962 bnb
013655442 Uk
Human ecology--History.--United States
Geographical perception--United States.
Wilderness areas--Public opinion.--United States
Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States.
Public opinion--United States.
United States--Environmental conditions.
GF503 / .A64 2007
304.2