03101nam 2200613 450 991046468460332120200520144314.01-78238-374-3(CKB)3710000000128737(EBL)1420462(SSID)ssj0001226438(PQKBManifestationID)12506111(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001226438(PQKBWorkID)11270133(PQKB)10204579(MiAaPQ)EBC1420462(Au-PeEL)EBL1420462(CaPaEBR)ebr10883299(CaONFJC)MIL623544(OCoLC)881567478(EXLCZ)99371000000012873720140628h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCreating wilderness a transnational history of the Swiss National Park /Patrick Kupper ; translated by Giselle WeissNew York :Berghahn,2014.©20141 online resource (276 p.)The Environment in History : International Perspectives ;Volume 4Description based upon print version of record.1-306-92293-3 1-78238-373-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Global Parks: National Parks, Globalization, and Western Modernism; Chapter 2 - National Natures: The Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale; Chapter 3 - Local Landscapes: Political Spaces, Institutional Arrangements, and Subjective Attitudes; Chapter 4 - Total Protection: Philosophy and Practice of Freely Developing Nature; Chapter 5 - Ecological Field Laboratory: The Park as a Scientific Experiment; Chapter 6 - Wilderness Limits: Natural Dynamics and Social EquilibriumConclusion - Creating WildernessBibliography; IndexThe history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became theEnvironment in history ;Volume 4.Nature conservationSwitzerlandHistorySchweizerischer Nationalpark (Switzerland)HistoryElectronic books.Nature conservationHistory.333.7209494Kupper Patrick921433Giselle Weiss GiselleMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464684603321Creating wilderness2245027UNINA