Creating wilderness :: a transnational history of the Swiss National Park /

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an ex...

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Main Author: Kupper, Patrick (Author)
Other Authors: Weiss, Giselle (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2014]
Edition:English-language edition.
Series:Environment in history ; v. 4.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland.
Item Description:Translation of: Wildnis schaffen : eine transnationale Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks. Bern : Haupt, 2012.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781782383741
1782383743

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