| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Nature, Business, and Community in North Carolina's Green Swamp. By Tycho de Boer. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xiv, 279 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3248-1.)

North Carolina's Green Swamp, a complex of forest and wetland southwest of Wilmington, remains remarkably diverse and unspoiled in spite of centuries of exploitation—so much so that the Nature Conservancy purchased and manages a good portion of the area. Tycho de Boer traces the history of its utilization by pastoralists, hunters, turpentine gatherers, lumbermen, farmers, and paper companies. In the process, he eschews both the common declensionist view of environmentalists, which sees human—especially white, capitalist—land-use patterns as leading to a decline in the health and diversity of ecosystems, and the progressive view, which tends to equate economic development with progress. His is a more nuanced, complex story; de Boer calls it an "eco-cultural business history" (p. 21).

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