Creating Wilderness : : A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park / / Patrick Kupper.
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an ex...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Environment in History: International Perspectives ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Global Parks: National Parks, Globalization, and Western Modernism
- CHAPTER 2 National Natures: The Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale
- CHAPTER 3 Local Landscapes: Political Spaces, Institutional Arrangements, and Subjective Attitudes
- CHAPTER 4 Total Protection: Philosophy and Practice of Freely Developing Nature
- CHAPTER 5 Ecological Field Laboratory: The Park as a Scientific Experiment
- CHAPTER 6 Wilderness Limits: Natural Dynamics and Social Equilibrium
- CONCLUSION Creating Wilderness
- Bibliography
- Index