American Wilderness: A New History

by Michael L. Lewis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195174144
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/08/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.14(w) x 6.29(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michael Lewis is Associate Professor of History, Salisbury University.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1. American Wilderness—An Introduction, Michael LewisCh. 2. American Wilderness and First Contact, Melanie PerreaultCh. 3. Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness, Mark StollCh. 4. Farm Against Forest, Steven StollCh. 5. Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau, Bradley P. DeanCh. 6. The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of "Nature's Nation", Angela MillerCh. 7. Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents, Benjamin JohnsonCh. 8. A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservatism, Char MillerCh. 9. Gender and Wilderness Conservation, Kimberly A. JarvisCh. 10. Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness Idea, Paul SutterCh. 11. Loving the Wild in Postwar America, Mark HarveyCh. 12. Wilderness and Conservation Science, Michael LewisCh. 13. Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept, Christopher ConteCh. 14. The Politics of Modern Wilderness, James Morton TurnerEpilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality, Donald WorsterRecommended Readings

Editorial Reviews

"Valuable for both is synthesis and innovation. American Wilderness: A New History successfully draws together essays that explore the paradoxes and controversies that continue to plague this mercurial concept."—Robin O'Sullivan, H-Net Book Review

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