The City Natural: Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism

摘要

Shen Hou sets herself a stiff challenge in The City Natural: Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism: how does one justify a book-length study of a periodical, Garden and Forest Magazine, that published for just one decade, its editor lamenting in 1897 that its failure "has shown conclusively that there are not persons enough in the United States interested in the subjects which have been presented in" it (p. 31)?