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National parks : the American experience / Alfred Runte.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Taylor Trade Publishing, 2010.Edition: 4th edDescription: xviii, 307 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781589794733 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781589794757 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1589794737 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1589794753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781589794740 (electronic)
  • 1589794745 (electronic)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973 22
LOC classification:
  • E160 .R78 2010
Contents:
Prologue: Paradise lost -- The American West -- Yellowstone -- Worthless lands -- The march of monumentalism -- See America first -- Complete conservation -- Ecology denied -- Schemers and standard-bearers -- Tradition triumphant -- The lesson of the big trees -- Ideals and controversies of expansion -- Decision in Alaska -- Into the twenty-first century : encirclement and uncertainty -- Epilogue: The future of national parks.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Circulating Books Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Main Collection E160 .R78 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3182700018506
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-296) and index.

Prologue: Paradise lost -- The American West -- Yellowstone -- Worthless lands -- The march of monumentalism -- See America first -- Complete conservation -- Ecology denied -- Schemers and standard-bearers -- Tradition triumphant -- The lesson of the big trees -- Ideals and controversies of expansion -- Decision in Alaska -- Into the twenty-first century : encirclement and uncertainty -- Epilogue: The future of national parks.

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