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Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 137)

Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 137)

Richard Grusin
3.8/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Pages
236
Format
Hardcover
Release
April 22, 2004
ISBN 13
9780521826495

Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 137)

Richard Grusin
3.8/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Pages
236
Format
Hardcover
Release
April 22, 2004
ISBN 13
9780521826495

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