| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. By Tina Loo. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. xxiv + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

If transnationalism has bared the limits of national history, then national histories should illustrate the nation's centrality. In States of Nature, however, Tina Loo uses the state to frame events, but then undermines its importance. The result blurs boundaries. Tracing local and national efforts to save, husband, or annihilate wildlife, Loo tells tales about humans and animals that feature three key themes. First is that Canadians developed "a localized, fragmented, and loose set of customary, informal, and private practices carried out by a diverse range of individuals and groups" which was only slowly displaced by the state after 1900 (p. 6). Second has been the resilient influence of non-state actors in shaping conservation across the twentieth century. Third is that contests over wildlife were also "about the values that should govern humans' relationships with nature ... and the values that would come from conserving it" (p. 7).

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