A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative

Abstract

Comments on the commitment to narrative form by scholars of environmental history. Discusses two books on the same topic and how they arrive at different conclusions. `The Dust Bowl,' by Paul Bonnifield; `Dust Bowl,' by Donald Worster; Dilemmas for scholars who study past environmental change; Challenges that postmodernism poses for those who applaud `the revival of narrative';