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Today, one-quarter of all the land in Latin America is set apart for nature protection. In Nationalizing Nature, Frederico Freitas uncovers the crucial role played by conservation in the region's territorial development by exploring how Brazil and Argentina used national parks to nationalize borderlands. In the 1930s, Brazil and Argentina created some of their first national parks around the massive Iguazu Falls, shared by the two countries. The parks were designed as tools to attract migrants from their densely populated Atlantic seaboards to a sparsely inhabited borderland. In the 1970s, a change in paradigm led the military regimes in Brazil and Argentina to violently evict settlers from their national parks, highlighting the complicated relationship between authoritarianism and conservation in the Southern Cone. By tracking almost one hundred years of national park history in Latin America's largest countries, Nationalizing Nature shows how conservation policy promoted national programs of frontier development and border control.

Nature conservation --- Boundaries. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Conservation --- Borderlands --- Iguaçu Falls (Argentina and Brazil) --- Parque Nacional do Iguaçu (Brazil) --- Parque Nacional Iguazú (Argentina) --- Argentina --- Brazil --- Boundaries --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Iguazu National Park (Argentina) --- Iguaçu National Park (Brazil) --- Cachoeira de Iguaçu (Argentina and Brazil) --- Cataratas del Iguaçu (Argentina and Brazil) --- Cataratas del Iguassú (Argentina and Brazil) --- Cataratas del Iguazú (Argentina and Brazil) --- Cataratas do Iguacu̧ (Argentina and Brazil) --- Iguassú Falls (Argentina and Brazil) --- Iguazú Falls (Argentina and Brazil) --- Salto do Iguaçu (Argentina and Brazil) --- Salto Santa Maria (Argentina and Brazil) --- Saltos de Santa Maria (Argentina and Brazil) --- Saltos do Iguaçu (Argentina and Brazil) --- Saltos do Iguassú (Argentina and Brazil) --- Victoria Falls (Argentina and Brazil)