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

Name: Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks
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ISBN: 9780521081689

ISBN-10: 0521081688

ISBN-13: 9780521081689

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Grusin

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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.

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface and acknowledgments


Introduction - reproducing nature: the technology of national parks



Recreating Yosemite: landscape, nationalism, and the nature of aesthetic agency



Representing Yellowstone: art, science, and fidelity to nature



Recognizing the Grand Canyon: naming, sublimity, and the limits of mediation


Conclusion - remediating nature: national parks as mediated public space


Notes


Index