TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Michael L.
TI  - American wilderness: a new history 
SN  - 0195174151
AV  - GF503 .A64 2007
U1  - 304.2 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Geographical perception
KW  - Wilderness areas
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of environment on
KW  - Environmental conditions
N1  - 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
N2  - Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present
ER  -