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Roderick Nash

American historian

Roderick Frazier Nash is a professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Scholarly biography

Nash received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in and his Ph.D.

from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in [1] He is the author of several books and essays. His dissertation, "Wilderness and the American Mind," done under the supervision of Merle Curti, became what has come to be seen as one of the foundational texts of the field of environmental history. After teaching for two years at Dartmouth College, he was called to the History Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he joined historians such as Wilbur Jacobs, Robert O.

Collins, Frank J. Frost, C. Warren Hollister, Leonard Marsak, and Joachim Remak. After witnessing an oil spill in Santa Barbara in , he and a number of other faculty members became active within the university and founded an environmental studies program there in Since the initial 12 graduates in , there have been 4, graduates within separate majors.

Roderick nash biography of mahatma gandhi A distant relative of the Canadian river explorer Simon Fraser and his son, Simon Roderick, as a boy, Nash wondered if his generation would ever have the chance to experience the kind of country that amazed the early North American explorers.

Nash is an advocate for environmental education and an avid white-water river rafter.

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

Bibliography

Also by Nash, Roderick:

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

References

Further reading

  • McDonald, Bryan.

    "Considering the nature of wilderness: Reflections on Roderick Nash’s Wilderness and the American Mind." Organization & Environment (): online