| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.3

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The View From Vermont: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape. By Blake Harrison. Burlington, VT, Hanover, NH, and London: University of Vermont Press and University Press of New England, 2006. xiv + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $65.00, paper $25.95.

Blake Harrison's The View From Vermont traverses the Green Mountain State to explore how tourism transformed Vermont's rural landscape and identity in the twentieth century. Harrison argues that changing patterns and conceptions of rural work and leisure had profound consequences for people's interactions with each other and their understanding of rural landscapes. Focusing on the "reworking" of rural Vermont, Harrison is concerned with the "negotiation of landscape and identity according to the context of work-leisure relations" (p. 3). He extends Dona Brown's analysis of tourism's importance for nineteenth-century regional identity in Inventing New England (Smithsonian, 1995) and Cindy Aron's examination of American vacationing in Working at Play (Oxford, 1999).

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