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Book Review


Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. By Gregg Mitman. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xviii, 312 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11035-7.)
This book chronicles "the endless search for a breathing space free from allergic disease" in the United States from 1800 to present (p. 211). It engages broad historical issues such as land-use patterns, demographic changes, and environmental justice in urban areas. Gregg Mitman links ideas to actions, describing a historical process of constructing environments and disease in tandem: "if place shaped illness, illness also shaped place" (p. 39). . . .
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