American wilderness a new history / edited by Michael Lewis.
| Other author | Lewis, Michael L., 1971- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-279) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006048320 |
| ISBN | 0195174151 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195174151 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195174143 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195174144 (pbk. : alk. paper) |