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January, 2009
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Book Review

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S NOTE

The production of reviews takes the efforts of dozens of people. Many thanks to the reviewers who give of their time, the publishers who send books, and those at the Forest History Society who help manage the books. Thanks also toEditor Mark Cioc and to Managing Editor Eve Munson for their help and advice.

MELISSA WIEDENFELD
Umweltgeschichte. Eine Einführung. By Verena Winiwarter and Martin Knoll. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2007. 368 pp. Illustrations, references, bibliographies, and index. Cloth 17.90 euros.
Were this book in English, North American graduate students would study it first and review it last before sitting down to write the comprehensive examination in environmental history. Two European colleagues provide advanced analytical reflection on the practice of the subdiscipline that transcends the now indispensable undergraduate primer that is J. Donald Hughes's What is Environmental History? Such an "introduction" is not to be confused with a basic narrative of human relations with the natural world since the emergence of the species. It speaks rather to what it is environmental historians do, how, and why. 1
      The approach especially reflects long experience in interdisciplinary environmental teamwork on the part of the lead author, who holds Austria's only professorial chair in environmental history. Winiwarter and Knoll have the rare ability to observe environmental history simultaneously (and successively) from within as practitioners and from without at the viewpoints of their one-time collaborators in the social or natural sciences. They write, therefore, as much for the experienced scholar in the field as for those still vague about the whole idea. Audiences at all levels are forced to think about what it means for environmental historians to go about their professional business. . . .
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