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The state park movement in America : a critical review /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Landrum, Ney C., 1931-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Parks Americana"
  • The nature of parks
  • The states begin to stir: state park initiatives in the nineteenth century
  • The momentum builds: state parks expansion in the early twentieth century
  • Coalescence: the first national conference on parks
  • "A state park every hundred miles": the national conference on the state parks goes to work
  • Dubious progress: assessing the relevance of the national conference on state parks
  • An unexpected boon: economic recovery and a new deal for state parks
  • Recovery and beyond: depression-era initiatives look to the future
  • A major interruption: wartime distraction and postwar rebound
  • The continuing search for direction: the ever-resilient national conference on state parks
  • A new era of federal-state cooperation
  • Signs of maturity
  • A look behind the scenes: issues and influences that shape the state park system
  • Anything goes: an age of expansion, experimentation, and expediency
  • Looking to the future: the view from one observer's soapbox.