| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4 | The History Cooperative

*The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism*. By Aaron Sachs. (New York: Viking, 2006. xii + 496 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $25.96.)
This finely crafted, beautifully written intellectual history explores Alexander von Humboldt's impact upon American science and society and links these impacts to roots of the modern environmental movement. Sachs examines Humboldt's own worldview and follows this with biographical portraits of four American scientists and explorers who reflect varied dimensions of Humboldt's larger influence.	. . .

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