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For the enjoyment of the people : the creation of national identity in American public lands
- Title
- For the enjoyment of the people : the creation of national identity in American public lands / Mary E. Stuckey.
- Author
- Stuckey, Mary E.
- Publication
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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, and economic interests. American presidents stake their claims to environmentalism, their assertions of a singular national history, and their definitions of a unified national identity on the parks, and often do so inside the parks themselves. Like any major area of public policy, however, the fissures present in debates over the national parks also represent important fracture lines in the public understanding of the meaning of "America" and of individual claims to citizenship. The park system, in other words, does a lot of political work for both presidents and the mass public, even though much of that work goes largely unnoticed. This book explores that political work, focusing on national origins and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, monuments to the national past, heritage and the assertion of a national narrative, environmentalism and natural resources, and the exploitation of the national landscape for economic gain"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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, disposession, 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".
- Call Number
- JFE 23-2997
- ISBN
- 9780700634798
- 0700634797
- 9780700634804 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022042498
- OCLC
- 1347267699
- Author
- Stuckey, Mary E., author.
- Title
- For the enjoyment of the people : the creation of national identity in American public lands / Mary E. Stuckey.
- Publisher
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Stuckey, Mary E. For the enjoyment of the people Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023] 9780700634804 (DLC) 2022042499
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-2997