Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521826495
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Landscape assessment; Development - General; Business & Economics; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Business/Economics; Natural Resources; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Nature-Natural Resources; Government policy; History; National parks and reserves; United States
First sentence: If national parks are technologies for the reproduction of nature, then the preservation of Yosemite in 1864 constitutes the creation of a technology for the reproduction of nature as landscape.