| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Thomas R. Dunlap. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. (Studies in Environment and History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. xv, 350. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.

As its title and, especially, its subtitle indicate, this is an ambitiously conceived book. Its subject is the relation between scientific understanding and attitudes toward nature in the minds and practices of the "Anglo" settlers of North America and the South Pacific, from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Thomas R. Dunlap uses both intellectual and political developments to periodize his study. Thus, in his view, the nineteenth century up to about 1880 was characterized by vigorous territorial expansion, with natural history as the dominant mode of understanding; the next fifty years by digestion of and identification with these lands, guided by laboratory science; and the first half of the twentieth century by debate about appropriate human power over nature, and the emergence of ecology. The final section of the book discusses the influence of ecological science on the environmental movement of the last decades of the twentieth century. In addition to surveying broad trends, Dunlap focuses on a selection of significant episodes, such as the American and Australian attempts to cultivate semi-arid landscapes, the establishment of national parks and game reserves, and the introduction and partial suppression of alien flora and fauna. . . .

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