Nature's spectacle : the world's first national parks and protected places / John Sheail.
"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...
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London ; Washington, D.C. :
Earthscan,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Acts of Defiance ; The utility and romance
- 2 America's Invention ; Yosemite Valley ; Yellowstone ; John Muir ; Saved by the cavalry
- 3 Scenic Reserves ; 'America of the South' ; 'God's Own Country' ; The Canadian railroad-parks
- 4 The Forest Reserves ; State and provincial parks ; The Southern forests ; The United States' Forest Service ; The Canadian forest reserves
- 5 Wildlife Reserves ; The sporting hunter ; Antipodean wildlife reserves ; Canada's 'ample sanctuaries'
- 6 National Monuments ; Naturschutz ; The Swedish national parks ; The Swiss national park ; The National Trust
- 7 Conservation and the American Parks ; The Hetch Hetchy Valley ; Frustrated ambition ; 'America First' ; The Organic Act
- 8 Parks and Empire Making ; The hunter naturalist ; The Kruger national park ; Parks and strict nature reserves ; The George V Memorial Park ; British East Africa
- 9 The Making of a Parks System ; The Canadian Parks Branch ; The National Park Service ; Parks across America ; Parks for purchase ; Parks and road construction
- 10 National Playgrounds ; Tourist development ; Park standards ; Park interpretation ; Naturalization ; Parks' predator control ; Zapovedniki
- 11 Parks as Contested Grounds ; African dispossession ; Rights to the parks ; The right to roam ; Bush walking ; Wilderness preservation
- 12 Parks and the Wider Governance ; The Latin American parks ; The Grand Tetons ; National planning ; Parks and post-war planning
- 13 An Uncertain Legacy ; Rhetoric and reality ; The last half-century