| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.1

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Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii+333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00.

Everyone with even a passing familiarity with the American roadway has seen billboards. Travelers may hardly notice them, and they have not attracted much examination outside polemics and the trade literature. But they are indeed everywhere, and serious students of the American landscape would benefit from a serious examination of their origins, their aesthetics, their economics, and the arguments used to justify or condemn them. Catherine Gudis has provided exactly this service in her excellent book.

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