| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.4

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See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880–1940. By Marguerite S. Shaffer. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. 429 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.95.

In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer argues that tourism was central to the development of "a nascent national culture in the United States" (p. 6). From 1880 to 1940, the tourism industry promoted certain attractions as distinctly American and defined an "organic nationalism that linked national identity to a shared territory and history" (p. 4). Tourism, in other words, instilled the national landscape with symbolic meaning. By visiting prescribed places and seeing America, tourists could gain an intimate understanding of the nation and participate in a patriotic ritual. As a result, citizenship became defined in terms of geographic mobility and the consumption of the tourist experience.

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