| Edition |
English-language edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 4
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Environment in history ; v. 4.
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| Note |
Translation of: Wildnis schaffen : eine transnationale Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks. Bern : Haupt, 2012. |
| Summary |
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Global parks : national parks, globalization, and western modernism -- National natures : the Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale -- Local landscapes : political spaces, institutional arrangements, and subjective attitudes -- Total protection : philosophy and practice of freely developing nature -- Ecological field laboratory : the park as a scientific experiment -- Wilderness limits : natural dynamics and social equilibrium. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Schweizerischer Nationalpark (Switzerland) -- History.
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Nature conservation -- Switzerland -- History.
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Nature conservation. |
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Switzerland. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Weiss, Giselle, translator.
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| Added Title |
Wildnis schaffen. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014009492
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kupper, Patrick. Wildnis schaffen. English. Creating wilderness. New York : Berghahn Books, 2014 9781782383734 (DLC) 2013044896 (OCoLC)861068641 |
| ISBN |
9781782383741 (ebook) |
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1782383743 (ebook) |
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9781782383734 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1782383735 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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