| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5 | The History Cooperative

Karen R. Jones and John Wills. The Invention of the Park: Recreational Landscapes from the Garden of Eden to Disney's Magic Kingdom. Cambridge: Polity. 2005. Pp. 216. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.
The park is one of the most common and popular features of our lives and surroundings. Within the past week, I have visited three different types: a national park (Dartmoor); a former eighteenth-century genteel landscaped estate that is now a spacious public park within city boundaries; and a small Victorian park located a stone's throw from where I live. The local scene on that Sunday afternoon evoked the cover photograph of the book under review: sunworshippers sprawled on the greensward in New York City's Central Park.	1
The book begins with dictionary definitions. At the risk of stating the obvious, Karen R. Jones and John Wills assert that "the park means many things to many people" (p. 3). They proceed to identify ten types: ancient hunting reserves; English landscape parks; city parks; baseball parks; national/nature/wildlife parks; amusement/theme parks; zoological parks; trailer parks; industrial parks; and culture parks. The catholicity of coverage in terms of country, chronology, and type (although where are American Civil War battlefield parks?) is suggested by a perusal of the index entries for the first letter of the alphabet, which include Alexander the Great, Adelaide Zoo, Amboseli National Park (Kenya), Augustus, and Assyrian parks of the twelfth century b.c.	. . .

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