Richard W. Judd

The Untilled Garden

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study traces the origins of conservation thinking in America to the naturalists who explored the middle-western frontier between 1740 and 1840.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780521509985
• ISBN-10: 052150998X
• Artikelnr.: 25906251

Autorenporträt

Richard W. Judd is Col. James C. McBride Professor of History at the University of Maine and editor of the journal Maine History. He is the author of Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation (2003); Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England (1997); and Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present (1995). His current research includes a survey of New England's environmental history.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Forging a Scientific Community: 1. 'A country unknown': colonial
explorers and their natural history; 2. Rambles in Eden; 3. 'A despairing
curiosity': creating America's scientific academy; Part II. The Natural
History of America: 4. Power and purpose in the geological record: the
scientific beginnings of American romanticism; 5. Integrated landscapes:
mountains, rivers, and forests in the balance of nature; 6. 'A distant
intercourse': animal character and conservation; Part III. Improvers,
Romantics, and the Science of Conservation: 7. From forest to fruitful
field: settlement and improvement in the Western wilderness; 8. The
naturalist's mirror: popular science and the roots of romanticism; 10.
Challenging the idea of improvement.