Roderick Nash

Roderick Frazier Nash is a professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the

Scholarly biography

Nash received his

Wilderness and the American Mind

Nash's study in this book^[2] concerns the attitude of Americans' toward the idea of wilderness. He discusses the different attitudes that Americans have had toward nature since colonization and the changing uses and definitions of 'wilderness' in that context. Specifically, Nash describes the evolution of American wilderness conception through Transcendentalism, Primitivism, Preservationism, to Conservationism.^[3] Nash states that if wilderness is to survive, we must, paradoxically, manage wilderness – at the very least, our behavior towards the wilderness must be managed.^[4]

See also

• Environmental history of the United States

Bibliography

• Wilderness and the American Mind (1967).^[5]
• The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation (1968).
• The Call of the Wild 1900–1916^[6] (1970).
• Environment and Americans: The Problem of Priorities (1972).
• The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids (1978). Co-authored with Robert O. Collins
• The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics (1989).
• American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History (1990).
• The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917–1930 (1990).

Also by Nash, Roderick:

• From These Beginnings: A Biographical Approach to American History, Volume I and II.

References