Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature [Paperback]

In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation.A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.