| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.1

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Book Review

Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier by Susan Kollin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xvi + 224 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index.

In this lively and well-written book, Susan Kollin examines the different ways in which Americans have pictured Alaska from the time of its purchase in 1867 by Secretary of State William Henry Seward to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. She opens her narrative by pointing out that the oil spill "threatened to disrupt" the carefully-constructed image of Alaska as "pure wilderness" and the "last frontier" that had been cultivated and promoted for more than a hundred years, and discusses how the Alaskan tourism industry responded to this threat (p. 2). In the following four chapters, Kollin argues that this image of Alaska was available only to middle-class American men of European descent, and the experiences of the state's Canadian neighbors (discussed in chapter two), of white women (chapter three), and of Native Americans (chapter four) were excluded from the dominant vision of Alaska. . . .

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