| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S NOTE

As we move into 2008 and global climate change continues to dominate the news, it is appropriate to begin the reviews with the latest Alfred Crosby book and others on climate change and resource use. The books reviewed reflect the increasing importance of the field of environmental history to the general public. It would be impossible to produce reviews without the help of many people. I greatly appreciate those who make the reviews possible: the reviewers who donate countless hours, the managing editor who provides counsel as well as editing, and the staff at the Forest History Society who cheerfully take on a number of tasks. The readers of the journal are in your debt.

MELISSA WIEDENFELD

Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. By Alfred W. Crosby. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. xv + 192 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth $23.95.

Through the years of a path-breaking career as a historian of science, culture, and environment, Alfred Crosby has oriented colleagues, students, and a wider audience to fundamental trends in our past. His two broad syntheses of intercontinental, anthropogenic ecological change, The Columbian Exchange (Greenwood Press, 1972) and Ecological Imperialism (Cambridge, 1986), were breakthroughs. For historians of the global reach of the Western world, these works added an essential new dimension. For historians of science, Crosby bridged the crevasse between physical and biological sciences. For disease historians, his work provided a long temporal and transoceanic context. For environmental historians, he forged a highly influential overview of the devastating encounter of the Eurasian biotic world with the Americas and the Pacific.

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