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American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis



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Titolo: American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis Visualizza cluster
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->  
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.