| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature. By James A. Pritchard. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xxii, 370 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-3722-7.)

Environmental history is a discipline at odds with itself, divided between evaluative or descriptive histories and more revisionary histories deriving from the "textual turn" of poststructuralism or the concern with race, class, and gender that has marked cultural studies for the past two decades. On this disciplinary map, James A. Pritchard's Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions can be located squarely in the former territory. Pritchard employs the notion of "preserving natural conditions" as a conceptual lens through which to understand the development of ecological and scientific management practices in Yellowstone National Park. Writing from the perspective of current ecosystem management principles, Pritchard chronicles the dispute 1

between two profoundly different world-views, the first advocating human intervention as essential to the proper management of wildlife in the national parks, the second view suggesting that humans are not required to intervene in nature, and that we can learn something from watching nature at work.

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