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...Karl Brooks Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act . Mark Harvey . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturHalistory Summer an increase inmarket orientation was responsible for the decline in stature could be reversed...

...Adam M. Sowards The Wilderness Debate Rages On: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate . Michael P. Nelson and J. Baird Callicott . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring outsiderwhointroducedan extensivehigh-speedinternesterverp, roviding...

...Jennifer Seltz Alaska's Place in the West: From the Last Frontier to the Last Great Wilderness . By Roxanne Willis . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2010 . 200 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-1748-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book...

...Joseph Key Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness . Thomas P. Slaughter . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 368 / Agricultural History Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness. By Thomas P. Slaughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf...

...Gordon M. Winder Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand . By Peter Holland . Auckland : Auckland University Press , 2013 . 256 pp., $44.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-86940-739-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Cameron L. Saffell The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore . By Laura Alice Watt . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . 368 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-5202-7708-3 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society...

... the hardships and exaggerated the benefits of homesteading. In the 1920s Ole Rølvaag's Giants in the Earth reflected the public's reduced faith in homesteading and rural life. In the 1930s the novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane reflected conservative opposition to the New Deal. Mid-twentieth...

... within the Atlantic economy. This essay examines the changing perceptions and uses of trees as the key to understanding how planters transformed a perceived wilderness into one of British America’s wealthiest and most repressive plantation societies. Colonists used trees to assess and understand...

... management. Meanwhile, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, a wilderness environmentalist, cultivated a similar point of view. By 1989 a meeting of the minds occurred between the two men, which resulted in a congressional appropriation of $1.4 million and the founding of the Alternative Pest Control Center...

... connections to the present and uses them to discuss evolv ing concepts of nature and culture, wilderness and garden, and history and biology on the land. The firstchapter summarizes Marsh's ideas and influ ence, stressing his then novel belief that humans rather than nature caused most environmental...

... a casual hermit and wandering scribbler than he is a rogue surveyor, mastering the technical skills of his sometime-profession in order to move beyond the abstract perspective of a market economy. Such countersurveying, Miller explains, guided Thoreau not to a worship of unpeopled wilderness...

..., who comes out of a background in literary criticism, writes very well about the role of the contested notion of "wilderness" in Tasmania. By examining the move from promoting Tasmanian wilderness as attractive to tourists to the politicization of habitat in the interests of conser? vation, she brings...

... and monuments. Over time, as Skillen shows, it gained greater authority and capacity to reduce overgrazing, regulate mining, manage timberlands for sustained yield, accommodate recreation interests, and protect wilderness. Unquestionably, the BLM today accommodates more interest groups, has more democratic...

... greater authority and capacity to reduce overgrazing, regulate mining, manage timberlands for sustained yield, accommodate recreation interests, and protect wilderness. Unquestionably, the BLM today accommodates more interest groups, has more democratic decision-making processes, and seeks to better...

... of thinking offered scientific validity to the Christian concept of human uniqueness, Sanford contends (182). Most indigenous cultures of the Americas and India do not recognize the concept of wilderness as perceived by the Christian Puritans. In North America, however, the author argues that, the tropes...

... to the wisdom and im? portance of an environmental approach to the past. Readers should be forewarned, however, that Foster is an ecologist and his historical skills are sometimes limited. He makes much of the fact that Thoreau is known for his wilderness ethic and yet he lived in a domesticated landscape...

... interested in the relationship between Christianity and environmental change since at least 1967, when Lynn White Jr. published his influential essay, The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis and Roderick Nash published Wilderness in the American Mind. White laid the blame for environmental...

... in the footsteps of the wilderness studies of Roderick Nash, Max Oelschlaeger, and William Cronon, di Palma traces a term that, like wilderness, is misleading in its apparent simplicity. Both words suggest places set apart from humans, when in fact neither wilderness nor wasteland are separate from human...

... natives to discover that the ideas that she embraced since her youth were no longer viable. She now believes that human intervention in nature, if judiciously applied, can enhance the diversity of plants and animals. The basic problem, as Anderson sees it, is the misguided notion of wilderness. To early...

... canonical Eden myth, and its corollary, the apocalypse. Our world is one of easy dichotomies?good and evil, nature and culture? terribly born again in our recent events. And Oates seeks to find a new bal? ance in the meanings of nature and wilderness. This book links gender and wilderness, though...