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Making Rocky Mountain National Park: the environmental history of an American treasure

regime, for example, he shows how vacationers often demanded greater state intervention to preserve their landscapes from exploitation by privileged groups. The book is well written and very well organised: each of its six chapters addresses a discrete element of the argument, tacking between a focus on the conservation bloc and on tourists and always attentive to their interrelationship. Moranda makes effective use of particular case studies of landscape planning: in one, a national park in the ‘Saxon Switzerland’ never materialised because the forestry industry thought it tilted the landscape balance too much in the favour of recreation. Another target of his investigative eye is the Greifenbach Reservoir, which also demonstrated the conflicts among planners who favoured balanced land use, tourists who built their bungalows despite planning restrictions and the uranium industry that continued to compete with tourists for water and other resources. At Greifenbach, ‘unplanning’ prevailed, yet the SED was expected to do its part to ensure adequate consumer goods for the vacationers. Moranda’s twin focus on environmentalism and tourism means that this book is more interested in institutions, experts and policies than on tourist practices. His tourists are weekend and summer vacationers, campers and hikers rather than sightseeing tourists on their own or on package tours. This contribution to the history of what James C. Scott has labelled ‘high modernism’ is neither top-down nor bottom-up, but rather explores an intriguing middle ground of planners, environmental activists and vacation consumers. He is fully aware of scholarship on tourism as well as on communism, consumerism, German statism and the environment, and the book can be read with profit by anyone interested in any one of these late twentieth-century stories.