Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
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
Journal of World History – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Aug 12, 2013
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.