| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.4

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. By Kenneth Olwig. Madison: University of Wis-consin Press, 2002. xxxii + 299 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.

Long before environmental history arrived as an academic field, geography and geographers were already there. Such prominent authors as Carl Sauer and Clarence Glacken, for example, had early in the last century already helped to frame many of the questions about nature, society, and culture with which contemporary environmental history continues to engage itself. Nor has geography ceased its contributions. This book by Kenneth Olwig, an ambitious and wide-ranging study of how visions of landscape have been created and contested over the last five hundred years, has much to say to environmental historians about the conceptual foundations of the field.

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