| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. By Thomas Hallock. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxii, 289 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2820-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5491-3.)

From the Fallen Tree surveys the politics of environmental imagination from the late colonial era through the early national period. The literary historian Thomas Hallock focuses especially upon how his chosen texts register the interaction of the triumphal westward march of Euro-American settler culture; the rise of systematic, informed attention to the natural landscape, typically with the aid of (underacknowledged) native and other subaltern local informants; and the emergence of a pastoral self-conception of the rootedness of national culture arising in part from a vicarious identification with the increasingly subjugated or evacuated indigenes, notwithstanding a certain lingering sense of guilt and accountability toward their displacement.

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