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Title:

American wilderness : a new history / edited by Michael Lewis.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--United States--History.
Geographical perception--United States.
Wilderness areas--United States--Public opinion.
Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States.
Public opinion--United States.
United States--Environmental conditions.

Other Authors:

Lewis, Michael L., 1971-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-279) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780195174144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195174143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195174151 (alk. paper)
0195174151 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70122608

LCCN:

2006048320

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)