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9780847697168

Conservation Reconsidered Nature, Virtue, and American Liberal Democracy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847697168

  • ISBN10:

    0847697169

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-07
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

The prominent contributors in Conservation Reconsidered establish a fundamentally original view of the conservation movement and the impact of public policy on nature. This collection of essays articulate the belief that the thinkers and actors who

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Charles T. Rubin
Part One: Conservationists
Saving Wilderness for Sacramental Use: John Muir
3(30)
Bruce Pencek
``With Utter Disregard of Pain and Woe'': Theodore Roosevelt on Conservation and Nature
33(34)
Jeffrey Salmon
Gifford Pinchot, Founder: A New Look at Breaking New Ground
67(36)
Marlo Lewis Jr.
Aldo Leopold's Human Ecology
103(32)
Larry Arnhart
Part Two: Precursors
Was John Muir a Darwinian?
135(24)
James G. Lennox
The Mystery of Nature and Culture: Ralph Waldo Emerson
159(24)
Charles T. Rubin
Henry David Thoreau's Use of Nature
183(24)
Bob Pepperman Taylor
Frederick Law Olmsted: Civic Environmentalist
207(22)
Marc Landy
Afterword 229(12)
Bob Pepperman Taylor
Index 241(12)
About the Contributors 253

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