| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Karl Jacoby. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 305. $39.95.

American historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the rise of the conservation movement. Hardly a textbook exists that does not at least briefly explore the efforts by Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot to rationalize the use of the nation's rivers, forests, and grazing lands. Most of the historiography depicts conservation as a positive ecological development, while noting that many corporations actually supported this effort to allocate resources more efficiently. Karl Jacoby offers a bold, revisionist critique of this staple in the literature on Progressivism. Centering his analysis on social relations and law, Jacoby uncovers the consequences for ordinary people of various conservation policies and, in the process, gives readers a fresh interpretation of this much-studied topic. . . .

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