The author examines the many takings of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to consider the contested legal and personal meanings and valuations of property, place, and memory. The book suggests personal and systemic approaches to reframe place and reconcile public development with personal and community loss.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Property and Place in the United States: Seeing the Delaware Water Gap
Chapter 2: American Conservation and Preservation and the Tocks Island Dam
Chapter 3: Initial Inhabitants and Takings
Chapter 4: Settler Development in the Upper Minisink
Chapter 5: More Takings
Chapter 6: The Park and Surrounding Communities Today