BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S NOTE
It takes dozens of dedicated reviewers uncounted hours to provide the reviews published in Environmental History. It is a service greatly valued by our readership, and one that continues to serve long after an issue's publication. Many thanks to those who contributed reviews in 2006, and to those who help behind the scenes, especially our managing editor and personnel at the Forest History Society.
The reviews in this issue reflect the growing diversity of research in environmental history. This issue's reviews begin with four books on African American environmental history and environmental justice. Geographically, the reviewed books move from the U.S. South to the Caribbean, South America, Australia, and Europe. Topics range from hurricanes to climate change to oil, and from the U.S. Forest Service to the EPA to conservationists. While the reviews are diverse, there remains an interconnectedness linking one review to the next.
MELISSA WIEDENFELD
| "To Love the Wind and the Rain": African Americans and Environmental History. Edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xiii + 271. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95.
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| "'To Love the Wind and the Rain' builds upon the first wave of the historiography of African Americans and the environment" that began in the 1970s, according to its editors, Dianne Glave and Mark Stoll (p. 5). This work displaces age-old colonialist studies in which blacks are ideologically described as savages who inhabited the wild(erness). These scholars introduce an expressive African American cultural identity that places blacks in the subject position, and narrates how blacks have historically conceived, perceived, imagined, and utilized their environmental space (rural and urban), as well as how they have continued to survive in it. |
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