| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933. By Margaret Beattie Bogue. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. xx, 444 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-299-16760-7. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-299-16764-X.)

The Great Lakes make up a huge inland sea that contain about one-fifth of the fresh water on earth. This large and diverse natural system is overlaid by a complex grid of political boundaries that delineate two nations, one province (Ontario), and eight states (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota). Britain officially represented Canada in foreign affairs until 1933. By the last third of the nineteenth century, the fisheries of the Great Lakes were in trouble, as overfishing and the consequences of use and development took their toll on what had once seemed like a limitless resource. . . .

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