| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Robert L. Dorman. A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845–1913. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 256. Cloth $45.00, paper $16.95.

Robert L. Dorman wishes to speak a word for George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell. Identifying them as prototypes of the common division of environmentalists into conservationists (Marsh and Powell) and preservationists (Thoreau and Muir), Dorman provides for each a biographical sketch, a description of his social and political context, a close reading of his writings, and an assessment of his career. A brief epilogue emphasizes their contemporary relevance to environmentalism. . . .

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