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Culture Technology And The Creation Of America S National Parks

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Author : Richard A. Grusin
Category : Literary Criticism
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Published : 2004-04-22
ISBN : 0521826497
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Page : 244
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Reviews book: Richard Grusin's innovative study investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War. The creation of America's national parks is usually seen as an uncomplicated act of environmental preservation. Grusin argues, instead, that parks must be understood as complex cultural technologies for the reproduction of nature as landscape art. He explores the origins of America's three major parks - Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon--in relation to other forms of landscape representation including photography, mapping, travel writing and fiction.

America S National Parks And Their Keepers

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Author : Ronald A. Foresta
Category : Law
Publisher : Routledge
Published : 2013-11-26
ISBN : 9781135989736
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 382
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Reviews book: First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

National Parks Of America

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Author :
Category : Nature
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Published : 2016-04-06
ISBN : 1760340642
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 328
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Reviews book: Celebrate and explore all 59 of America's national parks in the centenary year of the National Parks Service with this beautifully illustrated introduction to each one. Find out what activities to do, which animals to spot, where to stay and where to hike. Each park features breathtaking photography and text from Lonely Planet's US-based adventure experts, including sample itineraries. This lavishly finished hardback, in a landscape format, will inspire readers to plan the first of many trips to America's amazing national parks.

Decade Of Progress For South American National Parks

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Author :
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Publisher :
Published : 1985
ISBN : IND:30000129996041
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Page : 140
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National Parks Of North America

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Author : National Geographic Society (U.S.). Book Division
Category : National parks and reserves
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : The Society
Published : 1995
ISBN : UCSC:32106013280687
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 336
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Reviews book: North America's wild parklands, now more than 130 in number, boast a wealth of superlatives. They hold the world's tallest and largest living things, the grandest gorge, the longest known cave system, and the biggest bison herd. Several of them have been declared UNESCO world heritage sites and international biosphere reserves. All are scenic wonderlands, and many are sanctuaries for threatened wildlife and rare plants. More than 330 color photographs, diagrams, and maps illustrate the 336 pages of National Parks of North America. Vivid profiles and concise data boxes, arranged alphabetically by country, describe each park; sidebars feature natural, historical, and cultural highlights of the major ones. To offer further insights into these fragments of a once wild continent, the directory at the back of the book provides addresses and telephone numbers.

Pilgrimage To The National Parks

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Author : Lynn Ross-Bryant
Category : Nature
Publisher : Routledge
Published : 2013
ISBN : 9780415893800
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 328
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Reviews book: National Parks – 'America's Best Idea' – were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions. The inherent tensions between these two realities ensured the parks would be stages where the country's conflicting values would be performed and contested. As pilgrimage sites embody the values and beliefs of those who are drawn to them, so Americans could travel to these sacred places to honor, experience, and be restored by the powers that had created the American land and the American enterprise. This book explores the importance of the discourse of nature in American culture, arguing that the attributes and symbolic power that had first been associated with the 'new world' and then the 'frontier' were embodied in the National Parks. Author Ross-Bryant focuses on National Parks as pilgrimage sites around which a discourse of nature developed and argues the centrality of religion in understanding the dynamics of both the language and the ritual manifestations related to National Parks. Beyond the specific contribution to a richer analysis of the National Parks and their role in understanding nature and religion in the U.S., this volume contributes to the emerging field of 'religion and the environment,' larger issues in the study of religion (e.g. cultural events and the spatial element in meaning-making), and the study of non-institutional religion.

A Guide To The National Parks Of America Comp And Ed

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Author : Edward Frank Allen
Category : National parks and reserves
Publisher :
Published : 1915
ISBN : UOM:39015002259383
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Page : 340
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The National Parks

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Author : Barry Mackintosh
Category : History
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Published : 2005
ISBN : MINN:31951D02480529R
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Page : 132
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Reviews book: Tells the story of the evolution of the United States National Park System.

National Parks

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Author : Alfred Runte
Category : Nature
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Published : 2021-12-15
ISBN : 9781493067336
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 352
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Reviews book: Revised with a new epilogue and iconic national park art, this fifth edition of National Parks: The American Experience tells the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning and management of these treasured lands. Lavishly illustrated with period photographs, including eight pages of color paintings, National Parks: The American Experience has never been more beautiful or profound. This remains a stirring look into the lands that define America, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to wilderness Alaska. This is how we got our parks, and yes, how we have occasionally failed them, and when doing so how we have failed ourselves. "Civilization is the problem parks solve," Runte writes. At times, the national parks may seem as imperfect as they are exceptional; the point is that they are all we will ever have. Knowing that earlier America, and planning for the new America, still demands our humility to advance the best of both.

World Conference On National Parks 1st Proceedings Of A Conference Organized By The International Union For Conservation Of Nature And Natural Resources Seattle Washington June 30 July 7 1962

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Author : United States. National Park Service
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Publisher :
Published : 1964
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006341221
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Page : 471
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