| Description |
viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index. |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Geographical perception -- United States.
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Geographical perception. |
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Wilderness areas -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Wilderness areas. |
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Public opinion. |
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- United States.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on. |
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Public opinion -- United States.
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United States -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
| Added Author |
Lewis, Michael L., 1971-
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| ISBN |
0195174151 alkaline paper |
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9780195174151 alkaline paper |
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0195174143 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780195174144 paperback alkaline paper |
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