| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3

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Book Review

Resources Under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the Statee. By Paul R. Josephson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.

This book is a welcome contribution to the growing study of world environmental history. It asks a simple yet provocative question: To what extent does the form of a government, "authoritarian or democratic, centrally planned or market, colonial or postcolonial" (p. 2) influence its efforts to make nature useful to its citizens, and to cope with the environmental and social problems that inevitably follow? A historian of large-scale scientific and technological development, Josephson is ideally qualified to answer this question. In Red Atom (W.H. Freeman, 1999), he examined the history of the Soviet nuclear industry. His Industrialized Nature (Shearwater, 2002) then offered a comparative analysis of what he called brute force transformations of nature in the Soviet Union, Norway, Brazil, and the United States. In this current book, Josephson broadens his perspective still further by exploring the relationship between science, technology, and the environment under a variety of political regimes. The result is a work that should be of interest to anyone concerned with the world's mounting environmental crisis.

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