American Wilderness: A New HistoryMichael L. Lewis Oxford University Press, 2007 - 290 Seiten 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. |
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