American wilderness : a new history
Features essays which propose to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact. This volume attempts to gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.
History
viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780195174151, 9780195174144, 0195174151, 0195174143
123796234
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