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"This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism-and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important-much broader than the title suggests-and so is the book."- American Historical ReviewSusan R. Schrepfer is the author of 'The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of the Environmental Reform, 1917-1978', published 2003 under ISBN 9780299088545 and ISBN 0299088545.
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