2012
DOI: 10.1017/s0021875811001320
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America's National Parks: The Transnational Creation of National Space in the Progressive Era

Abstract: The rise of support for national parks in the United States after 1900 occurred amid a transnational circulation of information on the apparent destruction of – or imminent threat to – nature on a global level. Arguments for creating and protecting national parks included preservation of “wild” areas, proto-ecological ideas, and social reformist and economic utilitarian pressures during the Progressive Era. Advocacy for park protection as it developed to 1916 reflected this complex cluster of ideas rather than… Show more

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“…Thomas Jefferson's writings from the late 1700s were key in the process of creating the national parks. He described the land as unique to the United States (Runte, 2010;Tyrrell, 2012), while in the middle of the eighteenth century Henry David Thoreau (1990) inspired ideals of life and spiritual meaning to living with nature, further consolidating ideals of wilderness with the American landscape and the identity bound to it. Despite the inclusive rhetoric of these early national park advocates, the imaginary of the US wilderness was directed primarily to upper-class white people (DeLuca, 2010), who determined and constructed ideals of who could have access and the ways in which natural spaces should be enjoyed (Finney, 2014).…”
Section: The National Park Imaginary and Us Identitymentioning
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“…Thomas Jefferson's writings from the late 1700s were key in the process of creating the national parks. He described the land as unique to the United States (Runte, 2010;Tyrrell, 2012), while in the middle of the eighteenth century Henry David Thoreau (1990) inspired ideals of life and spiritual meaning to living with nature, further consolidating ideals of wilderness with the American landscape and the identity bound to it. Despite the inclusive rhetoric of these early national park advocates, the imaginary of the US wilderness was directed primarily to upper-class white people (DeLuca, 2010), who determined and constructed ideals of who could have access and the ways in which natural spaces should be enjoyed (Finney, 2014).…”
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“…National parks are an important signifier of national identity (Burns, 2009;Runte, 2010;Tyrrell, 2012) and as such constitute a significant component of the nationalistic rhetoric associated with place-myths (Rennie, 2006;Runte, 2010). Hence, we begin this chapter with a historical overview of the NPS, wherein we discuss how parks have embodied democratic ideals (Frome, 2015;Ross-Bryant, 2005;Runte, 2010).…”
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“…La evocación nacionalista de parajes naturales de trascendencia histórica y de un suelo patrio que encarnaría los valores de la raza había sido parte integral de los programas de conservación de la primera mitad del siglo XX en Estados Unidos, Alemania y España, entre otros países; y, como en a344 otras ocasiones, este movimiento nacionalista había tenido un alcance internacional (Blackbourne, 2006;Casado, 2010;Harper y White, 2012;Tyrrell, 2012). Pero este enfoque ya no bastaba en un contexto de Guerra Fría y descolonización en el que Estados Unidos adquiría nuevas responsabilidades como imperio triunfante.…”
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“…Aunque la ambigüedad hacia el turismo seguía siendo común entre los conservacionistas, en la pugna entre modelos de investigación y de recreación para Parques Naturales la hegemonía estadounidense favorecía el modelo recreativo (de Bont, 2011;Kupper, 2012;Rumore, 2012;Sutter, 2012;Tyrrell, 2012). Aún más importante, nuevas concepciones de la conservación y la ecología favorecían el énfasis en productividad económica.…”
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“…El caso de los estados-nación occidentales, industriales y coloniales es paradigmáti-co (Crosby, 1986;Mackenzie, 1988;Adams y Mulligan, 2003;Smith, 2006;Labadi;Tilley, 2011;Gissibl, Höhler y Kupper, 2012, Tyrrell, 2012, y España no es una excepción: la elaboración y aprobación de la primera Ley de Parques Nacionales en 1916 ocurrió en un periodo caracterizado a grandes rasgos por la percepción de una necesidad de regeneración colectiva tras la pérdida de los últimos bastiones del imperio en 1898, y por el creciente malestar socio-laboral en el medio urbano-industrial (Boyd, 2002;González Calleja y Ledesma Vera, 2009;Casado, 2010;véase también Casado, Patrias primitivas. Discursos e imágenes de la naturaleza en el primer conservacionismo español, en este mismo volumen).…”
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