Consuming Nature.(Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850-1950)(Brief article)(Book review)

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Consuming Nature

Gregory Summers

University Press of Kansas

2501 West 15th St., Lawrence, KS 66049

www.kansaspress.ku.edu

0700614869 $29.95 1-785-864-4155

Consuming Nature: Environmentalism In The Fox River Valley, 1850-1950 has an unusual dual nature--in one respect, it is a straightforward chronicle of the debate in Wisconsin's Fox River Valley more than fifty years ago, when the populace questioned and resisted...

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