Just released! Volume 35 (2007) of Historical Geography: An Annual Journal of Research, Commentary, and Reviews. ISSN 1091-6458.

The special theme in this edition is U.S. Parks and Protected areas. For additional information on this well established and growing scholarly journal, visit the Historical Geography website.

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The scholarly research and reviews in this journal represent a broad spectrum of academic work on a range of subjects from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. Parks and other protected areas such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Florida's Little Talbot Island State Park, and others are represented in this well presented volume.

Contents:

• Lary Dilsaver and Terence Young, "U.S. Parks and Protected Areas: Origins, Meanings and Management"
  
• Yves Figueiredo, "Inventing Yosemite Valley: National Parks and the Language of Preservation"

• Langdon Smith, "Cape Hatteras: Birth of the National Seashore"

• Ron Davidson, "The Beach versus 'Blade Runner': Re-casting Los Angeles' Relationship to Modernity"

• Peter Blodgett, "Defining Uncle Sam's Playgrounds: Railroad Advertising and the National Parks, 1917-1941"

• Cindy Ott, "Why Lewis and Clark Matter: History, Landscape and Regional Identity"

• Karl Byrand, "Integrating Preservation and Development at Yellowstone's Upper Geyser Basin, 1915-1940"

• William O'Brien, "The Strange Career of a Florida State Park: Uncovering a Jim Crow Past"

• Michael Yochim, "A Water Wilderness: Battles over Values and Motorboats on Yellowstone Lake"

• Richard G. Healey, "Risk and Behavioral Regional Investment: A Case Study of Speculation in the Nineteenth-Century Oil Fields of Pennsylvania"

• Samuel P. Otterstrom, "Rapid Settlement Diffusion: The Development of the Semi-Peripheral Region North of San Francisco, California, 1850-1880"

• Book Reviews
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Editorial Information: Co-Editors of Historical Geography are Dydia DeLyser, LSU; Karen M. Morin, Bucknell University; and Garth Myers, University of Kansas. Book Review Editor is Soren Larsen, University of Missouri. Guest Editors for the Parks 2007 edition are Terence Young, California State Polytechnic University; and Lary Dilsaver, U. South Alabama. Kathleen S. Carter, High Point Unversity, is Managing Editor. For further information, contact Historical Geography or Cat's Cradle Books.

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