American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis
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| Titolo: |
American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Pres, 2007 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 304.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Environmental conditions |
| Altri autori: |
LewisMichael L. <1971->
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| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2007. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Wilderness; Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality; Recommended Readings; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American wilderness |
| ISBN: | 0-19-771132-4 |
| 0-19-988396-3 | |
| 1-281-52903-6 | |
| 9786611529031 | |
| 0-19-803882-8 | |
| 1-4294-6068-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818082803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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