National Parks beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on "America's Best Idea" (Public Lands History)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DN6YK0S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 185 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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“This remarkable collection of essays reveals how national parks are so much more than a federal network of iconic American places. Encouraging us to consider the important transnational dimensions of park history beyond the “Best Idea” paradigm, this sophisticated and nuanced collection will set a new standard.”—Andrew Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism
Five Stars José Luiz de Andrade Franco Very good!!!
National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. Viewing parks around the world, at various scales and across national frontiers, these essays offer a panoptic view of the common and contrasting cultural and environmental features of national parks worldwide. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience—an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. They explore the historical interactions and influences—intellectual, political, and material—within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries. If national parks are, as Stegner said, “absolutely American,” they are