| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. By Thomas R. Dunlap. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-65173-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-521-65700-8.)

This member of the Studies in Environment and History series is, like Richard Grove's 1995 Green Imperialism, a partial follow-up to Alfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism (1986). There is a pattern. Crosby's European expansion en grosse occurred over large chunks of time and space. Grove's imperialists fixated on exotic islands controlled by the Dutch, French, and English. Thomas R. Dunlap aims only at the even more recent history of the rather large Anglo-settled places. But is it prudent to lead people out on limbs and branches spreading so far from the stem of European historiography without having first shown them the bole and at least indicated the roots? Dunlap necessarily ran the greatest risks of our trio, but I worry about this declension because I find my deepening knowledge of the treatment of the land in Britain makes it harder to see any similarities between implicit (practical) attitudes to nature in that imperial "metropolis" and explicit (cultural) attitudes allegedly held in its possessions! . . .

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