Description |
1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
American wilderness / Michael Lewis -- American wilderness and first contact / Melanie Perreault -- Religion "irradiates" the wilderness / Mark Stoll -- Farm against forest / Steven Stoll -- Natural history, romanticism, and Thoreau / Bradley P. Dean -- The fate of wilderness in American landscape art: the dilemmas of "nature's nation" / Angela Miller -- Wilderness parks and their discontents / Benjamin Johnson -- A Sylvan prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and early twentieth-century conservationism / Char Miller -- Gender and wilderness conservation / Kimberly A. Jarvis -- Putting wilderness in context: the interwar origins of the modern wilderness idea / Paul Sutter -- Loving the wild in postwar America / Mark Harvey -- Wilderness and conservation science / Michael Lewis -- Creating wild places from domesticated landscapes: the internationalization of American wilderness concept / Christopher Conte -- The politics of modern wilderness / James Morton Turner -- Nature, liberty, and equality / Donald Worster. |
Summary |
Ch. 1. American Wilderness--An Introduction, Michael Lewis. Ch. 2. American Wilderness and First Contact, Melanie Perreault. Ch. 3. Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness, Mark Stoll. Ch. 4. Farm Against Forest, Steven Stoll. Ch. 5. Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean. Ch. 6. The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of "Nature's Nation", Angela Miller. Ch. 7. Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents, Benjamin Johnson. Ch. 8. A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservatism, Char Miller. Ch. 9. G. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
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Geographical perception -- United States.
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Wilderness areas -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- United States.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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United States -- Environmental conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Geographical perception. (OCoLC)fst00940459
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
(OCoLC)fst00962843
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
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Wilderness areas -- Public opinion.
(OCoLC)fst01175185
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Lewis, Michael L., 1971-
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Other Form: |
Print version: American wilderness. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 0195174151 9780195174151 (DLC) 2006048320 (OCoLC)70122608 |
ISBN |
9780198038825 (electronic bk.) |
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0198038828 (electronic bk.) |
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