Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing AttitudesHans Huth was for many years Curator of Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago and a consultant for the U.S. National Park Service. For this new Bison Book edition, Douglas H. Strong has written an introduction discussing recent developments in the environmental movement and the contribution of Nature and the American to the burgeoning crusade for nature. |
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Inhalt
1 | vii |
Preface | xlv |
Scientists Philosophers and Travelers | 14 |
The Romantic Period | 30 |
Play and Rest 54 | 62 |
The Poetry of Traveling | 71 |
New Eyes | 87 |
Summer Migration | 105 |
Western Reports | 129 |
Yosemite Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon | 148 |
City Parks and Timberlands | 165 |
The Theodore Roosevelt Era | 178 |
Conservation | 192 |
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American areas artist associations beauty became become began Boston California called century Charles Cole concerned Congress conservation considered discussed early Emerson England enjoy entire established expressed Falls federal feeling felt followed forests friends future garden George Henry House idea important impressions interest James John kind known Lake land landscape later Letters living Magazine matters mind Mount Mountains movement Museum National Park nature never offered Olmsted painter painting perhaps period persons Philadelphia Photograph Plate popular possible present problems protection published recreation region result River romantic scene scenery seemed Service Society summer taken Thomas thought took trees United Valley visited visitors Washington West western wild wilderness World writing York Yosemite
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| Titel | Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes Bison book |
| Autor/in | Hans Huth |
| Ausgabe | illustriert, Neuauflage |
| Verlag | U of Nebraska Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0803272472, 9780803272477 |
| Länge | 250 Seiten |
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