| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks. By Richard Grusin. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx, 212 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-82649-7.)

Richard Grusin, a scholar of American transcendentalism, has turned his attention to the creation of national parks. Specifically, he looks at the parks as expressions of American cultural needs rather than as pieces of nature that have been carved out and protected from this culture. Building on the nature versus culture debate cemented in William Cronon's 1995 edited collection, Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, Grusin adds a theoretically sophisticated look at how the parks helped American culture redefine itself in the nationally connected, materially driven world that developed after the Civil War. He introduces the concept of parks as technologies that reproduce nature in order to serve cultural concerns. Parks, Grusin argues, are not separate from capitalism or technology, but created by them.

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