(Free) Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature
♛ Mark Daniel Barringer ♛
| #2441779 in Books | University Press of Kansas | 2002-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.28 x.90 x6.24l,1.29 | File Name: 0700611673 | 248 pages |
||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Oversold but still worthwhile|By Arthur Digbee|Like many academic tomes, this book's subtitles imply a grandeur and generality that isn't to be found in the book. In this case, even the title overreaches. Barringer is really telling the story of the Yellowstone Park Company (YPC), the major concessioner for 75 years. The YPC had to fend off competitors, or buy them out, and||"Taking about a century of western history as its scope, Selling Yellowstone is particularly valuable for the insights it provides into the complexities of public-private operations in the development of Yellowstone National Park and how those operatio
For over a century, Yellowstone National Park has been a monument to wildness in America. But long before flames swept through Yellowstone in 1988, that wildness had come under fire from encroachments that were making the park one of our nation's most commodified pieces of real estate.
For as long as they've existed, parks like Yellowstone have been the scene of some of the most intensive commercial activity in the American West. Selling Yellowstone recounts the...
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