Creating wilderness
Subtitle: a transnational history of the Swiss National Park
By: Patrick Kupper ; translated by Giselle Weiss
Edition: English language edition.
Series: The environment in history : international perspectives -- volume 4
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781782383734; 9781782383741
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: History; Nature conservation
Work titles: Wildnis schaffen
Notes: Translation of: Wildnis schaffen : eine transnationale Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks. Bern : Haupt, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1. Global parks : national parks, globalization, and western modernism; title: Chapter 2. National natures : the Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale; title: Chapter 3. Local landscapes : political spaces, institutional arrangements, and subjective attitudes; title: Chapter 4. Total protection : philosophy and practice of freely developing nature; title: Chapter 5. Ecological field laboratory : the park as a scientific experiment; title: Chapter 6. Wilderness limits : natural dynamics and social equilibrium; title: Conclusion.