As our national conversation centers increasingly on the use and abuse of the natural environment, it becomes crucial that environmental history provide the ballast for these debates. So Glorious a Landscape combines a vast array of pungent culturalcommentary with keen historical insight. The voices Professor Magoc has arranged here are the wellspring of American environmentalism. There is something in this ... Read morevolume for everyone concerned about the relationship Americans have had with their natural world.
Keith Edgerton, Montana State University-Billings This is a powerhouse of an anthology, only 300 pages but jam-packed with period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature over the past four centuries, from the creation stories of native peoples to the modern environmental justice movement. Students of American environmental history and literature are sure to find selections that will catch their interest, while Chris Magoc’s chapter introductions and bibliographical essay reliably point them to more in-depth studies.
David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Show Less