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 research,
delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger
context in which they developed. The book celebrates the deserved
attractiveness of the parks as wilderness or 'spectacle' to
millions of visitors, but also emphasises 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
democratised 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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