Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea
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How the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture, inspired the creation of parks to benefit the public. During the turbulent decade the United States engaged in a civil war, abolished slavery, and remade the government, the public park emerged as a product of these dramatic changes. New York's Central Park and Yosemite in California both embodied the "new birth of freedom" that had inspired the Union...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1952620341
ISBN13:9781952620348
Release Date:March 2022
Publisher:Library of American Landscape History
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"
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