Adam Rome | from the editor | Environmental History, 10.4

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Adam Rome | from the editor | Environmental History, 10.4 | The History Cooperative

from the editor

THIS ISSUE BEGINS with a wonderful essay by Peter Coates on the environmental history of sound. Though a few scholars have written about noise as an environmental issue, Coates demonstrates that the subject has many more dimensions. How has sound affected the way people perceive landscapes? What sounds have seemed "natural" at different times? How have human-made sounds affected the rest of creation? Those are only some of the fascinating questions Coates addresses. I promise that his essay will stretch your historical imagination.	1
The heart of this issue is a forum on books that ought to be better known in our field. Like the "what's next for environmental history" forum in the January 2005 issue, this special section marks the tenth year of the partnership of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society in publishing Environmental History. The section has an introduction, so you'll have to turn to page 668 to find out more!	2
Spencer Weart's "Gallery" essay is a thoughtful reflection on the challenge of imagining the effects of global warming. His essay focuses on a mural by Alexis Rothman, originally displayed at the Brooklyn Art Museum. The cover of this issue reproduces one section of Rothman's stunning work.	. . .

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