The American Environment, History of Conservation, Readings, Roderick Nash, 1976

Description: Roderick Nash, Editor. The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. This collection of readings contains comprehensive primary and secondary works in the field of conservation, emphasizes the history of ideas and attitudes about conservation, and gives a chronology of important conservation events in U.S. history. Second edition, paperback, 364 pp, 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches; glossy graphic paper wrappers. Illustrated. This second edition is updated from the 1968 first edition with updates to include the significant developments in conservation between 1967 and 1976, as well as additions to the chronology and bibliography. Please see the pictures for detail. NOTE: (Adapted from Wikipedia) -- Roderick Frazier Nash is a professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. The author of several books and essays, his dissertation, "Wilderness and the American Mind," done under the supervision of Merle Curti, became what has come to be seen as one of the foundational texts of the field of environmental history. His works concern the attitude of Americans' toward the idea of wilderness and the different attitudes that Americans have had toward nature since colonization and the changing uses and definitions of 'wilderness' in that context. He believes that if wilderness is to survive, we must, paradoxically, manage wilderness – at the very least, our behavior towards the wilderness must be managed.

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