National Parks : The American Experience (Third Edition)

by Runte, Alfred

• ISBN13: 9780803289635
• ISBN10: 0803289634
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

This third edition includes a new essay on recent environmental issues and concerns, especially as they center on Yellowstone National Park.

Author Biography

Alfred Runte, a Seattle-based environmental historian, is the author of Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness (Nebraska 1990).

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations	ix
Preface to the Third Edition	xi
Preface	xxi
Prologue: The Heritage of Achievement and Indifference	1	(10)
Catalysts: Nationalism, Art, and the American West	11	(22)
Monumentalism Reaffirmed: The Yellowstone	33	(15)
Worthless Lands	48	(17)
New Parks, Enduring Perspectives	65	(17)
See America First	82	(24)
Complete Conservation	106	(32)
Ecology Denied	138	(17)
Schemers and Standard Bearers	155	(26)
Familiar Themes, Traditional Battles, and a New Seriousness	181	(16)
Management in Transition	197	(12)
Ideals and Controversies of Expansion	209	(27)
Decision in Alaska	236	(23)
Epilogue. National Parks for the Future: Encirclement and Uncertainty	259	(8)
Notes	267	(48)
Bibliographical Note	315	(4)
Supplementary Bibliographical Note	319	(4)
Index	323