| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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"Nature's Nation" Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis. Ed. by Hans Bak and Walter W. Hölbling. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2003. 478 pp. Paper, €42.90, ISBN 90-5383-897-X.)

In a pair of seminal essays and again in a 1967 posthumous collection, the historian Perry Miller identified the American republic as "Nature's Nation." Miller argued that throughout their history Americans linked the wonders and bounty of the natural world with virtue. And in so doing, citizens connected the health of their nation to the fate of its landscape. Although the unique circumstances that connected the natural world to colonial society—namely, nature's wildness and remoteness—have largely vanished, the concept of nature remains a defining American idea. Taking inspiration from Miller's now classic thesis, this collection of thirty-five essays reconsiders the importance of nature to American life and culture. By examining how the varied meanings of nature impacted American attitudes toward the exploration, development, and protection of the nonhuman world, this volume traces the continuing significance of the environment on human affairs.

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