| Book Review | Environmental History, 14.1

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Book Review

Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. By Leslie Paris. New York: New York University Press, 2008. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $39.00.

Americans are still coming to terms with the ways the second industrial revolution transformed life after the Civil War. The organized summer camp is one enduring manifestation of this struggle to reconcile modernity with the perception that core American values have their roots in an agrarian culture. Leslie Paris's fascinating study of the first several decades (1880s-1940s) of organized camping illustrates how this movement made children's bodies and children's leisure time an important site for that struggle. Only recently have scholars begun to examine an institution of American childhood that has long since been immortalized in popular culture, perhaps most famously in Allan Sherman's song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh." Paris's research into the evolution of the American summer camp shows that such an examination is long overdue.

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