Main Title |
American wilderness : a new history / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
Oxford University Press, |
Year Published |
2007 |
OCLC Number |
70122608 |
ISBN |
0195174151; 9780195174151; 0195174143; 9780195174144 |
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 ;
United States--Environmental conditions ;
Wilderness areas--Public opinion ;
Humanèokologie ;
Nationalpark ;
Natur ;
Umwelt ;
USA ;
Humanekologi--historia--Fèorenta staterna ;
Människan och naturen--Fèorenta staterna ;
Naturen--attityder till--Fèorenta staterna ;
Public opinion--United States--United States
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ERAM |
GF503 .A64 2007 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
09/08/2009 |
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Collation |
viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index. |
Contents Notes |
American wilderness: an introduction / 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. Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present. |
Place Published |
Oxford ; New York |
PUB Date Free Form |
2007 |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2006048320 |
Merged OCLC records |
935949662 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20090901175354 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
02945cam 2200505 a 45020 |