Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks - Couverture rigide

Spence, Mark David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195118820 ISBN 13 : 9780195118827

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Spence Mark David

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Dispossessing the Wilderness has many virtues. Accurate, detailed accounts of the creation of Yellowstone and Glacier national parks rest on solid research, as does the story at Yosemite. (The Journal of American History)

Adding to recent scholarship exploring the cultural construction of nature, this succinct study opens up new areas of research in park service scholarship and paves the way for a more comprehensive study of the role and place of Native Americans in the national parks (The Historian)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195118820
• ISBN 13: 9780195118827
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200