{"product_id":"national-parks-beyond-the-nation-global-perspectives-on-americas-best-idea-volume-1-9780806152257","title":"National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on America's Best Idea Volume 1","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eManagement Policies\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eNational Parks beyond the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e If national parks are, as Stegner said, \"absolutely American,\" they are no less part of the world at large. \u003ci\u003eNational Parks beyond the Nation \u003c\/i\u003etells 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHowkins, Adrian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAdrian Howkins\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Polar Regions: An Environmental History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrsi, Jared:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJared Orsi, \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at Colorado State University, is author of \u003ci\u003eHazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCitizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFiege, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMark Fiege \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at Colorado State University and author of \u003ci\u003eIrrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. All three are council members of the Public Lands History Center.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413125435666,"sku":"9780806152257","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a3eb6379-666f-447b-b2af-8ad9cdac57cd.jpg?v=1729347939","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/national-parks-beyond-the-nation-global-perspectives-on-americas-best-idea-volume-1-9780806152257","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}