Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
Do we owe the world-famous Kruger National Park to the triumph of “good” conservationists over the forces of “evil” commercial exploitation? Environmental historian Jane Carruthers investigates.
Situating the wolf in the history of Canadian national parks, this controversial study examines the tumultuous relationship between humans and wolves in four Rocky Mountain parks.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Bill Bryson introduces the history and ecology of the Appalachian Trail.
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, Civilizing Nature adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time.
Nature of the Miracle Years traces the gradual development of the German conservation movement through the democratization perido of postwar German society.