| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change along the Missouri. By Robert Kelley Schneiders . (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xiv, 314 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7006-0937-7.)

At one time, rivers might have been thought to be poor subjects for historical analysis, but that is certainly no longer the case. Over the last fifteen years, environmental historians have used rivers to write important histories of ecology, politics, culture, and technology. Rivers, it seems, are in vogue. With Unruly River, Robert Kelley Schneiders has given us a history of the Missouri River since the mid-nineteenth century that emphasizes political history and environmental change. Schneiders's chapters focus on chronicling both successful and failed attempts to pass river "improvement" legislation. Alongside this political narrative, Schneiders charts changes to river morphology and riparian habitat brought about by channelization. . . .

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