For the Enjoyment of the People: The Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands Stuckey Mary E.
National parks are widely revered as "America's best idea"--they are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American presidents use these parks to stake their claims…
Specifikacia For the Enjoyment of the People: The Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands Stuckey Mary E.
National parks are widely revered as "America's best idea"--they are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American presidents use these parks to stake their claims to environmentalism, assert a singular national history, and define a unified national identity, often doing so inside the parks themselves. However, the establishment and history of almost every national park has been riddled with conflict over competing claims to land, knowledge, and economic interests. Like any major area of public policy, 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.