American Wilderness: A New HistoryMichael Lewis Oxford University Press, 08.03.2007 - 304 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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Religion Irradiates the Wilderness | |
Farm against Forest | |
Natural History Romanticism and Thoreau | |
The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape | |
Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents | |
A Sylvan Prospect | |
Putting Wilderness in Context | |
Loving the Wild in Postwar America | |
Wilderness and Conservation Science | |
Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes | |
The Politics of Modern Wilderness | |
Nature Liberty and Equality | |
Recommended Readings | |
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