Ch. 1: Michael Lewis: American Wilderness--An Introduction
Ch. 2: Melanie Perreault: American Wilderness and First Contact
Ch. 3: Mark Stoll: Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness
Ch. 4: Steven Stoll: Farm Against Forest
Ch. 5: Bradley P. Dean: Natural History, Romanticism, and
Thoreau
Ch. 6: Angela Miller: The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape
Art: The Dilemmas of "Nature's Nation"
Ch. 7: Benjamin Johnson: Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents
Ch. 8: Char Miller: A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot,
and Early Twentieth-Century Conservatism
Ch. 9: Kimberly A. Jarvis: Gender and Wilderness Conservation
Ch. 10: Paul Sutter: Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar
Origins of the Modern Wilderness Idea
Ch. 11: Mark Harvey: Loving the Wild in Postwar America
Ch. 12: Michael Lewis: Wilderness and Conservation Science
Ch. 13: Christopher Conte: Creating Wild Places from Domesticated
Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness
Concept
Ch. 14: James Morton Turner: The Politics of Modern Wilderness
Donald Worster: Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality
Recommended Readings
Michael Lewis is Associate Professor of History, Salisbury University.
"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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