| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. By Linda Nash. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv, 332 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-520-24891-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24887-8.)

The most enduring legacy of environmental history is that it embeds humans and their histories in the physical environment. Not in an environmentally deterministic manner, I hasten to add, but rather in a reciprocal manner that demonstrates how human histories shape landscapes and organisms, and how landscapes and organisms shape human histories. Human bodies are actually quite porous and, therefore, need to be seen as part of the environments they inhabit. In Inescapable Ecologies, Linda Nash explores that theme in the Central Valley of California, which boasts some of the most industrially engineered agricultural landscapes in the United States.

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