03704nam 2200805Ia 450 991081808280332120200520144314.00-19-771132-40-19-988396-31-281-52903-697866115290310-19-803882-81-4294-6068-710.1093/oso/9780195174144.001.0001(CKB)1000000000471532(EBL)415074(OCoLC)476239781(SSID)ssj0000102499(PQKBManifestationID)11124996(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102499(PQKBWorkID)10051233(PQKB)11708592(Au-PeEL)EBL415074(CaPaEBR)ebr10161103(CaONFJC)MIL152903(MiAaPQ)EBC415074(OCoLC)1406788658(StDuBDS)9780197711323(OCoLC) 70122608(FINmELB)ELB164220(EXLCZ)99100000000047153220060605d2007 uy 0enguruz|---auuu|txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican wilderness a new history /edited by Michael LewisFirst edition.New York Oxford University Pres20071 online resource (299 pages)Oxford scholarship online.Previously issued in print: 2007.0-19-517414-3 0-19-517415-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ConservationTen: 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 Wilderness; Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality; Recommended Readings; IndexThis 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.Oxford scholarship online.Human ecologyUnited StatesHistoryGeographical perceptionUnited StatesWilderness areasUnited StatesPublic opinionHuman beingsEffect of environment onUnited StatesPublic opinionUnited StatesUnited StatesEnvironmental conditionsHuman ecologyHistory.Geographical perceptionWilderness areasPublic opinion.Human beingsEffect of environment onPublic opinion304.2Lewis Michael L.1971-1667524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818082803321American wilderness4187246UNINA