美国荒野史研究述要

An Overview of the Study of American Wilderness History

荒野是解读美国历史的一个重要维度。荒野史是美国环境史研究中的一个独特领域。美国荒野史的研究内容十分丰富,包括白人来到新大陆后的荒野思想和荒野观,围绕开发、利用和保护荒野发生的矛盾、冲突与博弈,历史上的荒野保护政策和立法,以及荒野保护组织等。围绕这些主题,自20世纪五六十年代以来美国学界发表了大量极具旨趣的成果。学习和了解这些成果,有助于深入理解荒野在塑造美国历史和文化中的作用,对于推动国内的美国环境史研究,深化人们对自然价值的认知,促进生态文明建设,均具有重要的学术和现实意义。

Wilderness is an important dimension to interpret American history. Wilderness history is a unique field in the study of American environmental history. The research content of American wilderness history is very rich, including the wilderness thought and wilderness view of white people after they came to the New World, the contradictions, conflicts and games around the development, utilization and protection of wilderness, wilderness protection policies and legislation in history, and wilderness protection organizations, etc. Focusing on these themes, the American academic community has published a large number of interesting works since the 1950s and 1960s. Learning and understanding these achievements will help us to deeply understand the role of wilderness in shaping American history and culture, which is of great academic and practical significance in promoting domestic research on American environmental history, deepening people’s understanding of natural values, and promoting the construction of ecological civilization and so on.