American Wilderness A New History

Name: American Wilderness A New History
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ISBN: 9780195174144

ISBN-10: 0195174143

ISBN-13: 9780195174144

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael Lewis

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This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.18" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Contributors



American Wilderness: An Introduction




American Wilderness and First Contact




Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness




Farm against Forest




Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau




The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of "Nature's Nation"




Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents




A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservationism




Gender and Wilderness Conservation




Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness Idea




Loving the Wild in Postwar America




Wilderness and Conservation Science




Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept




The Politics of Modern Wilderness



Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality



Recommended Readings


Index