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American wilderness : a new history / edited by Michael Lewis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195174151
  • 9780195174151
  • 0195174143
  • 9780195174144
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: American wilderness.DDC classification:
  • 304.2 22
LOC classification:
  • GF503 .A64 2007
Other classification:
  • HR 1701
  • RU 10844
  • RU 10915
Partial contents:
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.
Summary: Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Course reserves
Book on Reserve Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia Reserve Books (Short-term Checkouts) GF503 .A64 2007 Available 31794003163293

ULS: Environmental History of Christianity ULS: Spring 2024

Book on Reserve Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg Reserve Books (Short-Term Checkouts) GF503 .A64 2007 1 Available 31826003514131

ULS: Environmental History of Christianity ULS: Spring 2024

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.

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.

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