The Fight to Save the Redwoods

The Fight to Save the Redwoods
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9780299088538
ISBN-13 : 0299088537
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Book Synopsis The Fight to Save the Redwoods by : Susan R. Schrepfer

Download or read book The Fight to Save the Redwoods written by Susan R. Schrepfer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism—and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important—much broader than the title suggests—and so is the book."—American Historical Review


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