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Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. <br> --Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona

Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. -- Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. --Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona The book really deserves a broad audience among all those interested in detailed historical and political analyses of ethnic and environmental issues in concrete local--global settings. --Environment and Planning Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country--but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. --Roman Szporluk, Harvard University Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country s future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. Roman Szporluk, Harvard University Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country- but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. - Roman Szporluk, Harvard University Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country--but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. --Roman Szporluk, Harvard University

Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country--but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. --Roman Szporluk, Harvard University Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. --Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona The book really deserves a broad audience among all those interested in detailed historical and political analyses of ethnic and environmental issues in concrete local--global settings. --Environment and Planning

Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. -- Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. --Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona The book really deserves a broad audience among all those interested in detailed historical and political analyses of ethnic and environmental issues in concrete local--global settings. --Environment and Planning Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country--but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. --Roman Szporluk, Harvard University Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country s future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. Roman Szporluk, Harvard University Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country- but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. - Roman Szporluk, Harvard University Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country--but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. --Roman Szporluk, Harvard University

Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. --Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona

Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country s future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona

The book really deserves a broad audience among all those interested in detailed historical and political analyses of ethnic and environmental issues in concrete local--global settings. --Environment and Planning Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over power and values. The Latvian environment has become a bitterly contested battleground between two social and cultural visions of that country's future. Schwartz has given us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for environmental history. --Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small post-Soviet country--but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of their particular geographical focus. --Roman Szporluk, Harvard University

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Katrinia Z. S. Schwartz is assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida.

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