The state park movement in America : a critical review /
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
2004
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- "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.
