Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks

by Richard Crusin and Richard Grusin

Book Overview

Richard Grusin's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521081688
• ISBN13: 9780521081689
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"