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Author Grusin, Richard A.

Title Culture, technology, and the creation of America's national parks / Richard Grusin.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  SB484.A4 G78 2004    Available  ---
Description xx, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 137
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 137.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-207) and index.
Contents Reproducing nature : the technology of national parks -- Recreating Yosemite : landscape, nationalism, and the nature of aesthetic agency -- Representing Yellowstone : art, science, and fidelity to nature -- Recognizing the Grand Canyon : naming, sublimity, and the limits of mediation -- Remediating nature : national parks as mediated public space.
Subject National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
National parks and reserves.
United States.
History.
National parks and reserves -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
National parks and reserves -- Government policy.
Landscape assessment -- United States -- History.
Landscape assessment.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- History.
Yellowstone National Park -- History.
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- History.
ISBN 0521826497