Vacationland - Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country

William Philpott teaches history at the University of Denver.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword: At Home and at Play in the High Country by William Cronon

Introduction: Seeing Like a Tourist

1. Selling the Scene

2. The Roads Nature Made?

3. Our Big Backyard

4. Blueprints for Action

5. The John Denver Tenor

Conclusion: How Tourism Took Place

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

About the author

William Philpott teaches history at the University of Denver.

Summary

Forces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and place

Product details

• Authors: William Philpott, William/ Cronon Philpott
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2013
• EAN: 9780295992730
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99273-0
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Vacationland; Weyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksVacationland
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food