This seminar explores nature, sport, parks, and travel at the crossroads of environmental and cultural history. It concerns ideas about nature expressed through outdoor pursuits and leisure from the 19th to the 21st century. Modern influences framed and promoted many outdoor pursuits and environments as natural, yet they were also culturally defined. Focused on Canada with international tangents, it studies conservation, adventure, wilderness, recreation, tourism, play, health, and body cultu...
This seminar explores nature, sport, parks, and travel at the crossroads of environmental and cultural history. It concerns ideas about nature expressed through outdoor pursuits and leisure from the 19th to the 21st century. Modern influences framed and promoted many outdoor pursuits and environments as natural, yet they were also culturally defined. Focused on Canada with international tangents, it studies conservation, adventure, wilderness, recreation, tourism, play, health, and body cultu...