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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 Review"

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Anyone involved in current environmental debate and action will find The Fight to Save the Redwoods an important and useful history of the conservation movement. - Environment; 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 Review

"Anyone involved in current environmental debate and action will find The Fight to Save the Redwoods an important and useful history of the conservation movement. - Environment; """"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 Review"

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Susan R. Schrepfer is associate professor of history at Rutgers University.

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