Ryan Edgington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1120545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Edgington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Edgington |
| SIGNATURE | EDGINGTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The First Atomic Bomb
The Hunter Elite
Historians of the U.S. West know that increased urbanization and industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century led to a desire among men to seek out manly experiences, which included hunting. Tara Kathleen Kelly follows this idea but takes it a step further. She argues that the hunter elite, not the average American hunter, shaped the ideas about wilderness, hunting, and, eventually, conservation. This hunter elite molded their ideals th…
The Promise of Wilderness
In this comprehensively told and elegantly illustrated book, James Morton Turner starts where most other histories of wilderness have seen fit to leave off: the Wilderness Act of 1964. Turner argues that wilderness is not merely a place “untrammeled by man” (p. 2). It is also a political process. Historians have pointed to the shift in environmental concerns that arose around Earth Day, including water pollution, toxic waste, and human health. Ye…
An ‘all-seeing flying eye’
In 1950 National Geographic published one of the first large-scale images of the curvature of the Earth. Clyde T. Holliday of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University constructed the mosaic, which was taken from a camera affixed to a V-2 rocket launched from White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Holliday crafted the image as a bellwether for two contradictory yet inextricable ideas: the promise of Earth photography in making l…
The Safari of the Southwest
In October 1969 the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish released seven African oryx at White Sands Missile Range to encourage leisure hunting in the region. By the mid-1990s, oryx populations had exploded. This essay argues that rather than being perceived as a military wasteland the missile range was recast as a consumer's landscape creating environmental changes that transcended missile testing.
Be Receptive to the Good Earth
Modern environmental activists unified behind calls for a change in how humans understood their relationships with nature. Yet they approached their concerns through a variety of historical lenses. Countering arguments that suggest environmentalism had its deepest roots in outdoor leisure, the countercultural back-to-the-land movement turned to a markedly American practice of pastoral mythmaking that held rural life and labor as counter to the ur…
Be Receptive to the Good Earth
Modern environmental activists unified behind calls for a change in how humans understood their relationships with nature. Yet they approached their concerns through a variety of historical lenses. Countering arguments that suggest environmentalism had its deepest roots in outdoor leisure, the countercultural back-to-the-land movement turned to a markedly American practice of pastoral mythmaking that held rural life and labor as counter to the ur…
Be Receptive to the Good Earth
Modern environmental activists unified behind calls for a change in how humans understood their relationships with nature. Yet they approached their concerns through a variety of historical lenses. Countering arguments that suggest environmentalism had its deepest roots in outdoor leisure, the countercultural back-to-the-land movement turned to a markedly American practice of pastoral mythmaking that held rural life and labor as counter to the ur…
The Promise of Wilderness
In this comprehensively told and elegantly illustrated book, James Morton Turner starts where most other histories of wilderness have seen fit to leave off: the Wilderness Act of 1964. Turner argues that wilderness is not merely a place “untrammeled by man” (p. 2). It is also a political process. Historians have pointed to the shift in environmental concerns that arose around Earth Day, including water pollution, toxic waste, and human health. Ye…
Be Receptive to the Good Earth
Modern environmental activists unified behind calls for a change in how humans understood their relationships with nature. Yet they approached their concerns through a variety of historical lenses. Countering arguments that suggest environmentalism had its deepest roots in outdoor leisure, the countercultural back-to-the-land movement turned to a markedly American practice of pastoral mythmaking that held rural life and labor as counter to the ur…
Be Receptive to the Good Earth
Modern environmental activists unified behind calls for a change in how humans understood their relationships with nature. Yet they approached their concerns through a variety of historical lenses. Countering arguments that suggest environmentalism had its deepest roots in outdoor leisure, the countercultural back-to-the-land movement turned to a markedly American practice of pastoral mythmaking that held rural life and labor as counter to the ur…
The Safari of the Southwest
In October 1969 the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish released seven African oryx at White Sands Missile Range to encourage leisure hunting in the region. By the mid-1990s, oryx populations had exploded. This essay argues that rather than being perceived as a military wasteland the missile range was recast as a consumer's landscape creating environmental changes that transcended missile testing.
An ‘all-seeing flying eye’
In 1950 National Geographic published one of the first large-scale images of the curvature of the Earth. Clyde T. Holliday of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University constructed the mosaic, which was taken from a camera affixed to a V-2 rocket launched from White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Holliday crafted the image as a bellwether for two contradictory yet inextricable ideas: the promise of Earth photography in making l…
The Promise of Wilderness
In this comprehensively told and elegantly illustrated book, James Morton Turner starts where most other histories of wilderness have seen fit to leave off: the Wilderness Act of 1964. Turner argues that wilderness is not merely a place “untrammeled by man” (p. 2). It is also a political process. Historians have pointed to the shift in environmental concerns that arose around Earth Day, including water pollution, toxic waste, and human health. Ye…
The Hunter Elite
Historians of the U.S. West know that increased urbanization and industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century led to a desire among men to seek out manly experiences, which included hunting. Tara Kathleen Kelly follows this idea but takes it a step further. She argues that the hunter elite, not the average American hunter, shaped the ideas about wilderness, hunting, and, eventually, conservation. This hunter elite molded their ideals th…
The First Atomic Bomb
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmentalism (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)