National Parks : The American Experience

by Runte, Alfred

• ISBN13: 9780803238787
• ISBN10: 0803238789
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Interpretative history of the national parks system proposing the establishment of national parks evolved out of a need to fulfill cultural rather than environmental needs, and examining the problems of maintaining the character and integrity of parks

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface
Prologue: The Heritage of Achievement and Indifference	p. 1
Catalysts: Nationalism, Art, and the American West	p. 11
Monumentalism Reaffirmed: The Yellowstone	p. 33
Worthless Lands	p. 48
New Parks, Enduring Perspectives	p. 65
See America First	p. 82
Complete Conservation	p. 106
Ecology Denied	p. 138
Schemers and Standard Bearers	p. 155
Familiar Themes, Traditional Battles, and a New Seriousness	p. 181
Management in Transition	p. 197
Ideals and Controversies of Expansion	p. 209
Decision in Alaska	p. 236
Epilogue. National Parks for the Future: Encirclement and Uncertainty	p. 259
Notes	p. 267
Bibliographical Note	p. 315
Supplementary Bibliographical Note	p. 319
Index	p. 323
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