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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810800603321

Autore

Landrum Ney C. <1931->

Titolo

The state park movement in America : a crictical review / / Ney C. Landrum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8262-6444-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

333.78/3/0973

Soggetti

Parks - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272).

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- The Need for State Parks -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Parks Americana -- The Nature of Parks -- The States Begin to Stir -- The Momentum Builds -- Coalescence -- A State Park Every Hundred Miles -- Dubious Progress -- An Unexpected Boon -- Recovery and Beyond -- A Major Interruption -- The Continuing Search for Direction -- A New Era of Federal-State Cooperation -- Signs of Maturity -- A Look behind the Scenes -- Anything Goes -- Looking to the Future -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliog aphy -- Index.