| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2

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Book Review

A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture. By Michael Kammen. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 336 pages, illustrations, notes, index. $39.95.

The seasons, Michael Kammen notes, "have always been with us, but with variable meanings for diverse people at different times in human history" (p.11). A Time to Every Purpose imaginatively and insightfully examines human fascination with seasonal cycle from Antiquity in western Europe to post-industrial America in the late twentieth century. Kammen's primary interest, and the bulk of the book, addresses the issue of "what the historical evolution of the four seasons motif can reveal about American culture" (p. 6). The author draws upon a wide range of published and unpublished materials. Indeed, it is the blending of diverse textural sources with depictions of the seasons in sculpture, art, crafts, and a range of other material objects that adds such depth and richness and texture to Kammen's analysis.

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