Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone
by
Stephen A. Germic
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2001
In this work of interdisciplinary scholarship, Stephen A. Germic reveals how America's first parks, both urban and 'wilderness,' were created and organized to mitigate the most threatening social and economic crises in the nineteenth century outside of the Civil War. Germic analyzes the intentionally...