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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marsha L Weisiger |
| ISBN: | 9780295988818 0295988819 9780295991412 0295991410 |
| OCLC Number: | 751739272 |
| Description: | 1 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series Title: | Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
| Responsibility: | Marsha Weisiger ; foreword by William Cronon. |
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"I cannot think of any book that weaves a more compelling narrative from the collision of Indian, American, and scientific understandings of nature. Weisiger's painstaking reconstruction of the region's biotic communities and her careful attention to biologists' thinking and their meanings for historians places this book in a class by itself." Louis Warren, University of California, Davis "An ambitious, masterful work that addresses fundamental issues about relationships of power between the state and the people it attempts to control, the relationship between nature and cultures, and conflicts between different ways of narrating stories." Sherry L. Smith, Southern Methodist University Read more...
