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

Released on 2004-04-22

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

Author : Richard A. Grusin

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Release : 2004-04-22

ISBN-13 : 9780521826495

Page : 244 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 495 voters

Grusin shows that while establishing a national park does involve preserving an area of land as a "natural" rather than economic asset, a ranch or mine for instance, it also transforms the landscape into a culturally constructed object called "nature.""--BOOK JACKET.

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