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Nature's Spectacle: The World's First National Parks and Protected Place
John Sheail
Hardcover. Earthscan Publications Ltd 2010-08.
ISBN 9781849711296
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National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original archival research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they first developed. The author identifies, describes and reflects upon what caused governments to intervene and establish, in that early modern period, what are today recognized to be national parks. However much they were created as acts of defiance, the parks gave added entrepreneurial impetus to the remoter parts of North America, the overseas territories of the imperial European powers, and of Europe itself. Those of Sweden, Switzerland and Italy are shown to become exemplars of what others might aspire to, while there is extensive coverage of parks in Asia, Africa and Australia as well.
The book's historical reconstruction celebrates the deserved attractiveness of the parks as wilderness or "spectacle" to millions of visitors, but also emphasizes how there was nothing inevitable, self-sustaining or without cost in their magnificence and accessibility. Those early parks were a powerful unifying force as national playgrounds, especially as motor transport democratized their use. However they also provoked bitter conflict in their dispossession of local communities and perhaps deliberate segregation of people from scenery and wildlife. That first century of national parks, which concluded with the significant break of the Second World War and the subsequent development of more international approaches to conservation, left an uncertain legacy. It was a fragile foundation from which to build what became an integral part of today's conservation movement
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