On John Muir's Trail: Nature in an Age of Liberal Principles
Donald Worster
Friday, 30 Mar 2007 at 4:00 pm – Gallery, Memorial Union
Donald Worster is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas and a trailblazer in the field of environmental history. He has been president of the American Society for Environmental History and is general editor of the Cambridge University monograph series Studies in Environment and History. His most recent book, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (2001), won the Byron Caldwell Smith Award. His other books include Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (1985), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; the Bancroft prize-winning Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979); and Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1985). In his talk, Worster will argue that the conservation of nature owes much to the rise of the liberal democratic society, with examples from John Muir and others.Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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