Wilderness and the American mind Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxii, 409 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300190380Subject(s): Nature conservation -- United States | Frontier and pioneer life -- United States | Nature -- Social aspects -- United States | Philosophy of nature -- United States | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States | Human ecology -- United States -- History | Values -- United States | Civilization | Ecology | Frontier and pioneer life | Human ecology | Nature conservation | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Nature -- Social aspects | Philosophy of nature | Values | Naturphilosophie | Wildnis | Naturraum | Humanökologie | Umweltbewusstsein | Nature and civilization -- United States | Philosophy of nature | Wilderness areas -- United States | Nature conservation -- United States | United States -- Environmental conditions -- History | United States -- Civilization | United StatesGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 333.7820973 LOC classification: E169.1 | .N37 2014GE150 | .N368 2014| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Char Miller -- Preface to the fifth edition : fifty years in the wilderness -- Prologue : the condition of wilderness -- Old World roots of opinion -- A wilderness condition -- The romantic wilderness -- The American wilderness -- Henry David Thoreau : philosopher -- Preserve the wilderness! -- Wilderness preserved -- John Muir : publicizer -- The wilderness cult -- Hetch Hetchy -- Aldo Leopold : prophet -- Decisions for permanence -- Toward a philosophy of wilderness -- Alaska -- The irony of victory -- The international perspective -- Epilogue to the fifth edition : island civilization.
A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
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