Dispossessing the wilderness Indian removal and the making of the national parks

Examining the ideal of wilderness preservation in the US from the antebellum era to the early 20th century, Spence shows how the early conception of the wilderness as a place where Indians lived gave way to the idealisation of uninhabited wilderness

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spence, Mark David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2000, 2000
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