| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Mikko Saikku. This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 373. $22.95.

Mikko Saikku is wrong about one thing: the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Already in press at the time of this long-lost species' dramatic rediscovery, his book provides an account of the stunning creature's supposed demise. But why would a history of the Mississippi Delta treat the natural history of a bird? The answer leads to a discussion of habitat destruction, which in turn points to a description of the Mississippi lumber industry in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which itself is based on a larger history of the technological, economic, and political developments that made cutting timber profitable. This chain of evidence eventually directs the reader to consider the Mississippi Delta region and all its specie habitats—including human—in the context of international capitalism in the age of industrial revolution and nation-state imperialism. And this is a big subject indeed. By weaving a web of interconnection between the natural and cultural worlds, Saikku's work represents the best of environmental history.

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