| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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John R. Stilgoe. Landscape and Images. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 354. $34.95.

This collection of essays celebrates the art of observing landscapes, particularly those that represent the lives of ordinary people past and present. This celebration is timely, John R. Stilgoe explains, because the near-disappearance of geography in American education has deflected attention from cultural landscapes, as have the advent of high-speed travel and the spread of homogenized commercial culture. In popular writing and tourist brochures, landscapes are trivialized as local color, while the migration to the coasts has drawn interest away from the interior. Thus we have learned to ignore vernacular landscapes and even to suspect those who observe them too closely.

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