Creating wilderness: a transnational history of the Swiss National Park

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Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Global Parks: Parks, Globalization, and Western Modernism * The Myth of Yellowstone * as Symbol * The Value of Unspoiled * The Global Conservation Movement * Parks and Natural Monuments * The Globalization of the Chapter 2. Natures: The Swiss and the Conservationist Internationale * Beautiful Vision of the Future * Laying the Foundations * The Dimension * Reserve or National Park * and Global Conservation * Dynamics and Contingencies Chapter 3. Local Landscapes: Political Spaces, Institutional Arrangements, and Subjective Attitudes * Global, Local * Local Culture and Economy * Fears and Expectations * Area Selection and Initial Leases * Rounding Out and Expanding * Dealing with Conflicts * Institutionalization and Subjectivation Chapter 4. Protection: Philosophy and Practice of Freely Developing Nature * Total Protection and Intervening in Natural Processes * Humans and Animals * The Role of Wardens * Managing * Introducing Animals * Seeking a New Equilibrium Chapter 5. Ecological Laboratory: The as a Scientific Experiment * A New Field within Ecology * Organizing and Financing Research * Scientific Park: International Reception * Changing Research Methods and Practices * Asynchronous Rhythms: Long-Term Observation and University Research * Growing Importance of the as a Field Laboratory? Chapter 6. Wilderness Limits: Natural Dynamics and Social Equilibrium * A Faustian Bargain with Water Power * Gambling with the * Calling All Lovers * And the Tourists Came * Recreational Instruction * Managing Wildlife * Of Hunters and Deer * Shooting in the Conclusion Bibliography Index