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Paul S. Sutter Driven Wild (Paperback) Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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- Book Title
- Driven Wild
- Publication Name
- Driven Wild
- Title
- Driven Wild
- Subtitle
- How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness
- Contributor
- William Cronon (Foreword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0295982209
- EAN
- 9780295982205
- ISBN
- 9780295982205
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Science
- Release Year
- 2005
- Release Date
- 01/01/2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Series
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Topic
- Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Agriculture / Forestry, Natural Resources
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Number of Pages
- 383 Pages
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In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild , Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country's wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295982209
ISBN-13
9780295982205
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30870623
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Agriculture / Forestry, Natural Resources
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Science
Number of Pages
383 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20 oz
Additional Product Features
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Web
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Sutter ably demonstrates that all four founders of the Wilderness Society feared that roads and cars were destroying the last remnants of American wilderness, abetted by government's willingness to encourage modernization and tourism. Nicely written; extensively referenced."--Choice "Driven Wild is a fresh look at the origins of the wilderness movement that deserves a place on the shelf of both geographers and historians...An excellent addition to conservation literature." --Historical Geography "Driven Wild is an outstanding scholarly achievement and is one of the best books ever written about environmental politics...[It] deserves to be read by a wide audience; there is no doubt that its conclusions are important and will frame further discussions about this aspect of American environmental history and policy." --Electronic Green Journal "Sutter's most striking contribution in this book is to argue that the movement to protect wilderness had less to do with staving off threats posed by the rapacious activities of an industrial economy than with resisting the onslaught of automobile-owning consumers seeking recreational opportunities in rural and wild places."--from the Introduction by William Cronon "One must be impressed by the depth of historical research Sutter does to document the intellectual and philosophical roots of the wilderness movement. Interestingly, the issues he details continue to be the defining issues for the wilderness movement in the twenty-first century."--William H. Meadows, president, The Wilderness Society "Napoleon famously said that an army travels on its stomach. The destruction of wilderness, however, travels by road. The pioneers of wilderness area protection know this well, as Paul Sutter clearly shows in Driven Wild. All thinking conservationists must read this powerful new exploration of early environmentalism in America."--Dave Foreman, chairman, The Wildlands Project "The preservation of wilderness is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and it is worth remembering how much complex thought has gone into making it happen. Paul Sutter restores to us a generation of activists who demand our respectful attention. They were subtle in their thinking, compassionate in their social sympathies, and critical in their response to consumer society. Well researched and skilfully written, this book will do much to elevate the contemporary debate over wilderness to higher ground."--Donald Worster, University of Kansas "Driven Wild is an important and long-needed book capturing the social, cultural, and intellectual milieu at the dawn of the organized wilderness movement in the United States."--Mark Harvey, author of A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement
Publication Name
Driven Wild : How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
Table of Content
Foreword: Why Worry about Roads, by William CrononAcknowledgmentsThe Problem with WildernessKnowing nature through Leisure: Outdoor Recreation during the Interwar YearsA Blank Spot on the Map: Aldo LeopoldAdvertising the Wilde: Robert Sterling YardWilderness as Regional Plan: Benton MacKayeThe Freedom of the Wilderness: Bob MarshallEpilogue: A Living WildernessNotesSourcesIndex, Foreword: Why Worry about Roads, by William Cronon Acknowledgments The Problem with Wilderness Knowing nature through Leisure: Outdoor Recreation during the Interwar Years A Blank Spot on the Map: Aldo Leopold Advertising the Wilde: Robert Sterling Yard Wilderness as Regional Plan: Benton MacKaye The Freedom of the Wilderness: Bob Marshall Epilogue: A Living Wilderness Notes Sources Index
Copyright Date
2002
Dewey Decimal
333.7/2/0973
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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