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The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by James Morton Turner; William Cronon is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
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From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly 20 percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the most powerful and troublesome ideas in American environmental thought, representing everything from sublime beauty and patriotic inspiration to a countercultural ideal and an overextension of governmen
Who reads The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- James Morton Turner; William Cronon
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780295993300
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- History, Nature, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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