Book Review

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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. By Hugh Prince. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv, 395 pp. Paper, $21.00, isbn 0-226-68283-8.)

This is an impressive book by any standard. Hugh Prince has transformed a study of a seemingly narrow subject—the shifting meaning of midwestern wetlands—into a compelling narrative full of insights about environmental history and historical geography. The result of more than forty years of research, this "historical geography of changing attitudes" paints detailed panoramas of evolving landscapes and explores cultural causes behind those changes. Although much of the book's power lies in describing the wet prairies, potholes, bogs, fens, and swamps that once covered much of the Midwest and show signs of renewal today, its major achievement is explaining how mental images shaped, erased, and restored those soggy ecosystems. . . .

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