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National Parks beyond the Nation - Global Perspectives on ""America's Best Idea (Hardcover)
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National Parks beyond the Nation - Global Perspectives on ""America's Best Idea (Hardcover)
Series: Public Lands History
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The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic
consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,"" the
U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies.
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. Writer and historian
Wallace Stegner once called national parks ""America's best idea.""
The contributors to this volume use that exceptionalist claim as a
starting point for thinking about an international history of
national parks. 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. What is the
role of science in the history of these preserves? Of politics?
What purposes do they serve: Conservation? Education? Reverence
toward nature? Tourist pleasure? People have thought differently
about national parks at different times and in different places;
and neat physical boundaries have been disrupted by wandering
animals, human movements, the spread of disease, and climate
change. 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. If national parks are, as Stegner said,
""absolutely American,"" they are no less part of the world at
large. National Parks beyond the Nation tells us as much about the
multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture as about the
framing of those ideas in geographic, temporal, and national terms.
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