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

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

Grusin, Richard
Gelpi, Albert
Crusin, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 137

Literary CriticismEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0521826497
ISBN13: 9780521826495
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 22 2004
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Richard Grusin's innovative study investigates how the establishment of national parks contributed to the development of American national identity after the Civil War. Although parks are seen as an uncomplicated means of environmental preservation, Grusin argues that they must also be understood as complex cultural technologies dedicated to the reproduction of nature as landscape art. He explores the origins of America's three major parks--Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon--in relationship to other forms of landscape representation, including photography, mapping, travel writing and fiction.

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