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The book that inspired it all…
So this is the genesis of the American Wilderness class. I’d read Melanie Perreault’s essay in here after Jan Golinski recommended it to me over lunch at The Huntington, and ultimately cited both their work in my own scholarship. I … Continue reading
Up next in American Wilderness…
The quintessential study, now a classic. Interesting Preface to the Fourth Edition of a book first published in 1967, an intellectual history of American ideas about wilderness from their European roots to an epilogue considering the contemporary “ethical and biocentric … Continue reading
Native Grounds
Iroquoia (think upstate New York) and the Arkansas Valley may seem an unlikely pairing, but having spent previous weeks talking about native North America and early contacts with Europeans, this week we are moving into a colonial era in … Continue reading
Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac, with essays on conservation from Round River
This week’s reading in my American Wilderness seminar. I hadn’t read it before this class, but it’s certainly a departure from the Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Perry Miller and Frederick Jackson Turner that we read in … Continue reading
