| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.3

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Book Review

The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xix + 200 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, notes on contributors, index. $75.00.
In this volume of essays, nine historians employ "syncretic" (p. xiv) methods and emphasize the concepts of power and the body to examine culture, landscape, and urban space. These analyses of past struggles to control cities and their environs explain some of the origins of environmental values held, landscapes inhabited, and resource management dilemmas faced today. Scholars concerned that environmental historians too often obscure power relations will be most interested in the collection.	1
The Nature of Cities is the result of a conference held at Princeton in 2003. It includes findings published in recent monographs, segments of forthcoming work, and pieces from projects in progress. A brief introduction highlights some of the important—but not all of the interesting—similarities and connections among essays, which are organized into three parts: Urban Spaces, Death, and the Body; The Geography of Power and Consumption; and, Cities Deconstructed. These readable essays could be matched in a variety of ways to create assignments that sharpen students' skills in comparative analysis.	. . .

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