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Article: from the editor
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- Environmental History
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Environmental History Jul 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IT IS A PLEASURE to welcome back to the pages of this journal its former editor Adam Rome, whose research on environmental reform in the Progressive Era continues to generate fresh insights. Rome's article suggests that a relatively advanced environmental consciousness did not shield reformers from antiimmigrant prejudice: on the contrary, reformers shared their fellow native-born Americans' suspicions about immigrant "pothunters" (hunters who killed for food rather than sport) in the countryside, and about ignorant "peasants" and "peddlers" who threatened the hygiene of the cities. But the reformers also hoped to instruct the children of those immigrants in the wonders of nature by ...