American wilderness : a new history /

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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....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lewis, Michael L., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
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.
Perception géographique > États-Unis.
Êtres humains > Influence de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Ecology
Geographical perception
Human beings > Effect of environment on
Human ecology
Public opinion
Wilderness areas > Public opinion
United States > Environmental conditions.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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