For the enjoyment of the people the creation of national identity in American public lands /
"While its national parks are widely viewed as "America's best idea," and are both popular and noncontroversial in the United States, the establishment and history of almost every national park has been characterized by conflict over competing claims to land, history, knowledge,...
| Main Author: | Stuckey, Mary E., |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2023]
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Important events in the development of American public lands and the National Park System
- Introduction: Interpreting "America's best idea"
- Establishing national origins : erasure, dispossession, and American empire
- Claiming a national past : patriotism and citizenship
- Asserting a singular national narrative : whose history and whose heritage?
- Protecting natural resources : citizen stewards and the nation's future
- Measuring value : entitlement in the land of opportunity
- Conclusion: "For the benefit and enjoyment of all the people".