American wilderness : a new history / edited by Michael Lewis.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195174151
- 9780195174151
- 0195174143
- 9780195174144
- 304.2 22
- GF503 .A64 2007
- HR 1701
- RU 10844
- RU 10915
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Table of contents
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index.
Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present.