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Michael Bess is Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, "The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000," won the 2004 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book on environmental history. He lives in Nashville, Tenn.