| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library. By Andrew Glenn Kirk. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xx, 243 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1123-1.)

One measure of the growing sophistication of environmental historiography is that wilderness is no longer its main field. Significant scholarship has emerged that probes urban ecologies, assesses the interplay between gender and space, and examines geography, race, and social justice. The provocative insights of cultural studies have also impelled historians to track the representation of the natural in culture. Among the exciting explorations of the complexity of such appropriations is Jennifer Price's Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (1999). Add to that list Andrew Glenn Kirk's impressive first book, Collecting Nature. . . .

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