Roderick Nash
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roderick Nash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roderick |
| FAMILY NAME | Nash |
| SIGNATURE | NASH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Island Civilization
John Muir
Journal Article John Muir: Life and Work. Ed. by Sally M. Miller. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. xii, 324 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8263-1452-X.) Get access Roderick F. Nash Roderick F. Nash University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1740–1741, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081745 Published:…
Narrating Discovery
John Young
Animal Liberation
The Rights of Nature
This essay examines the historical development of the idea of rights for non-human nature. Tracing the concept from its ancient roots through Enlightenment thinkers and into the twentieth century, the authors argue that the expansion of rights to include nature represents a significant shift in ethical thinking. They explore how various philosophical and cultural movements have contributed to this evolving perspective, highlighting the contributi…
The Rights of Nature
Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world
Saving America's Wildlife
Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed
The West of the Imagination
The Simple Life
Journal Article The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture. By David E. Shi. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. ix + 332 pp. Notes and index. $19.95.) Get access Roderick Nash, Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jess A. Le Vine Jess A. Le Vine University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: …
Marshes of the Ocean Shore
John Muir and His Legacy
Journal Article John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement. By Stephen Fox. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1981. xii + 436 pp. Illustrations, notes, books by John Muir, manuscript collections, and index. $17.50.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, March 1984, Pages 900–901…
American Environmentalism
Beyond Geography
Journal Article Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit against the Wilderness. By Frederick Turner. (New York: Viking, 1980. xviii + 329 pp. Notes, notes on sources, and index. $16.95.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 97–98, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890909 Published…
Hour of Trial
King, of the Mountains
Journal Article King, of the Mountains. By James M. Shebl. (Stockton, Cal.: Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, 1974. i + 76 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, list of works consulted, and index. $4.50.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Page 1008, http…
Thinking Like a Mountain
Journal Article Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. By Susan L. Flader. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $12.50.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
American Habitat
Journal Article American Habitat: A Historical Perspective Get access American Habitat: A Historical Perspective. Edited by Rosenkrantz Barbara Gutmann Koelsch William A.. (New York: Free Press, 1973. xi, 372 p. Illustrations, photographs, figures, index. $10.00.) Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issu…
A New Record of American Civilization
The Passing of the Great West
Journal Article The Passing of the Great West: Selected Papers of George Bird Grinnell Get access The Passing of the Great West: Selected Papers of George Bird Grinnell. Edited by Reiger John F.. (New York: Winchester Press, 1972. 182 p. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $8.95.) Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…
American Environmental History
Research Article| August 01 1972 American Environmental History: A New Teaching Frontier Roderick Nash Roderick Nash Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1972) 41 (3): 362–372. https://doi.org/10.2307/3637864 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions C…
The Conservationists
Journal Article The Conservationists. By Douglas H. Strong. (Menlo Park, Calif.: Addison-Wesley, 1971. 196 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. Paper, $2.16.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
Garden in the Grasslands
Journal Article Garden in the Grasslands: Boomer Literature of the Central Great Plains. By David M. Emmons. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. xi + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages…
The American Invention of National Parks
Wilderness and the American Mind
Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books that changed our world, and it has been called the Book of…
The Rights of Nature
This essay examines the historical development of the idea of rights for non-human nature. Tracing the concept from its ancient roots through Enlightenment thinkers and into the twentieth century, the authors argue that the expansion of rights to include nature represents a significant shift in ethical thinking. They explore how various philosophical and cultural movements have contributed to this evolving perspective, highlighting the contributi…
The American Invention of National Parks
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education." The Journal of Higher Education, 37(3), pp. 176–177
American Environmental History
Research Article| August 01 1972 American Environmental History: A New Teaching Frontier Roderick Nash Roderick Nash Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1972) 41 (3): 362–372. https://doi.org/10.2307/3637864 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions C…
Thinking Like a Mountain
Journal Article Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. By Susan L. Flader. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $12.50.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
The American Cult of the Primitive
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education
Journal Article Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education. By Merle Curti and Roderick Nash. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1965. vi + 340 pp. Notes, note on sources, and index. $8.50.) Get access W. B. Hamilton W. B. Hamilton Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 1, June 1966, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893970 P…
Island Civilization
Anatomy of Giving
William Parker and the Christiana Riot
William Parker and the Christiana Riot
Anatomy of Giving
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education
Journal Article Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education. By Merle Curti and Roderick Nash. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1965. vi + 340 pp. Notes, note on sources, and index. $8.50.) Get access W. B. Hamilton W. B. Hamilton Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 1, June 1966, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893970 P…
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education." The Journal of Higher Education, 37(3), pp. 176–177
The American Cult of the Primitive
Wilderness and the American mind.
John Muir, William Kent, and the Conservation Schism
Research Article| November 01 1967 John Muir, William Kent, and the Conservation Schism Roderick Nash Roderick Nash Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1967) 36 (4): 423–433. https://doi.org/10.2307/3636776 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
Wilderness and the American Mind
Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books that changed our world, and it has been called the Book of…
Wilderness and the American Mind
Journal Article Wilderness and the American Mind. By Roderick Nash. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. viii + 256 pp. Notes, note on sources, and index. $6.50.) Get access John P. Diggins John P. Diggins San Francisco State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 55, Issue 1, June 1968, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894328 Published: 01 June 1968
How to Kill a Golden State
The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
The American Invention of National Parks
American Environmental History
Research Article| August 01 1972 American Environmental History: A New Teaching Frontier Roderick Nash Roderick Nash Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1972) 41 (3): 362–372. https://doi.org/10.2307/3637864 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions C…
The Conservationists
Journal Article The Conservationists. By Douglas H. Strong. (Menlo Park, Calif.: Addison-Wesley, 1971. 196 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. Paper, $2.16.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
Garden in the Grasslands
Journal Article Garden in the Grasslands: Boomer Literature of the Central Great Plains. By David M. Emmons. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. xi + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages…
A New Record of American Civilization
The Passing of the Great West
Journal Article The Passing of the Great West: Selected Papers of George Bird Grinnell Get access The Passing of the Great West: Selected Papers of George Bird Grinnell. Edited by Reiger John F.. (New York: Winchester Press, 1972. 182 p. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $8.95.) Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…
Thinking Like a Mountain
Journal Article Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. By Susan L. Flader. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $12.50.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
American Habitat
Journal Article American Habitat: A Historical Perspective Get access American Habitat: A Historical Perspective. Edited by Rosenkrantz Barbara Gutmann Koelsch William A.. (New York: Free Press, 1973. xi, 372 p. Illustrations, photographs, figures, index. $10.00.) Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issu…
King, of the Mountains
Journal Article King, of the Mountains. By James M. Shebl. (Stockton, Cal.: Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, 1974. i + 76 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, list of works consulted, and index. $4.50.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Page 1008, http…
Hour of Trial
American Environmentalism
Beyond Geography
Journal Article Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit against the Wilderness. By Frederick Turner. (New York: Viking, 1980. xviii + 329 pp. Notes, notes on sources, and index. $16.95.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 97–98, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890909 Published…
John Muir and His Legacy
Journal Article John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement. By Stephen Fox. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1981. xii + 436 pp. Illustrations, notes, books by John Muir, manuscript collections, and index. $17.50.) Get access Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, March 1984, Pages 900–901…
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