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American wilderness a new history

eBook, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
History
1 online resource (viii, 290 p. :) ill.
9780195174151, 9780195174144, 0195174151, 0195174143
1153017648
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