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Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic by Karen Oslund (review)

Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic by Karen Oslund (review) Book Reviews He presents provocative questions for environmental historians to ask concerning the Great Awakening, Reconstruction, and modern conservatism. Here, Fiege makes a brief but compelling case for thinking of W. E. B. Du Bois as a nature writer, challenging both traditional interpretations of Du Bois and the overwhelmingly white canon of nature writing. Environmental scholars will surely read this book with great interest. It is also necessary reading for nonenvironmental historians interested in thinking about the American past in new ways. The book does not directly address questions of world history but could serve as a model for historians writing about environmental histories of major events anywhere in the world. erik loomis The University of Rhode Island Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic. By karen oslund. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 280 pp. $35.00 (cloth). "Iceland Imagined examines how Iceland and the rest of the North Atlantic region, which includes Greenland, northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands . . . have been envisioned by travelers and observers from the eighteenth century to the time of the Second World War," Karen Oslund states in the introduction to this provocative book. But this is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic by Karen Oslund (review)

Guðmundur Hálfdanarson,
Journal of World History , Volume 24 (2) – Aug 12, 2013
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Book Reviews He presents provocative questions for environmental historians to ask concerning the Great Awakening, Reconstruction, and modern conservatism. Here, Fiege makes a brief but compelling case for thinking of W. E. B. Du Bois as a nature writer, challenging both traditional interpretations of Du Bois and the overwhelmingly white canon of nature writing. Environmental scholars will surely read this book with great interest. It is also necessary reading for nonenvironmental historians interested in thinking about the American past in new ways. The book does not directly address questions of world history but could serve as a model for historians writing about environmental histories of major events anywhere in the world. erik loomis The University of Rhode Island Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic. By karen oslund. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 280 pp. $35.00 (cloth). "Iceland Imagined examines how Iceland and the rest of the North Atlantic region, which includes Greenland, northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands . . . have been envisioned by travelers and observers from the eighteenth century to the time of the Second World War," Karen Oslund states in the introduction to this provocative book. But this is

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