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Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.
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Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In short, the summer camp should best be read not as a simple rejection of modern life, but, rather, as one of the complex negotiations of modernity taking place in mid-twentieth century Canada.
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― The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55
― The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55