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UNINA9910818082803321 |
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Titolo |
American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-771132-4 |
0-19-988396-3 |
1-281-52903-6 |
9786611529031 |
0-19-803882-8 |
1-4294-6068-7 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (299 pages) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online. |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human ecology - United States - History |
Geographical perception - United States |
Wilderness areas - United States - Public opinion |
Human beings - Effect of environment on - United States |
Public opinion - United States |
United States Environmental conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2007. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Wilderness; Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality; Recommended Readings; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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