American Wilderness: A New HistoryMichael Lewis Oxford University Press, 2007年3月8日 - 304 頁 This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context. |
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Religion Irradiates the Wilderness | 35 |
Farm against Forest | 55 |
Natural History Romanticism and Thoreau | 73 |
The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art The Dilemmas of Natures Nation | 91 |
Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents | 113 |
A Sylvan Prospect John Muir Gifford Pinchot and Early TwentiethCentury Conservationism | 131 |
Putting Wilderness in Context The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness Idea | 167 |
Loving the Wild in Postwar America | 187 |
Wilderness and Conservation Science | 205 |
Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept | 223 |
The Politics of Modern Wilderness | 243 |
Nature Liberty and Equality | 263 |
Recommended Readings | 273 |
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