Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 13.1

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Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 13.1 | The History Cooperative

from the editor

THIS ISSUE IS COMPOSED of four essays that are more in dialogue with past and future essays than with each other. Thomas Cox's "A Tale of Two Journals" is in many ways a companion piece to Brian Donahue's "Another Look from Sanderson's Farm" (January 2007). In recognition of the Forest History Society's long-standing commitment to scholarly publishing, I asked Brian to do a reflective piece on Forest History's most widely cited essay. At the same time, I invited Tom to write a fifty-year retrospective about Environmental History and its predecessors. Nancy Langston's "The Retreat from Precaution" focuses on the role of endocrine disruptors (industrial pollutants that mimic body hormones) in causing medical problems; a wide-ranging essay, it examines health debates that stretch back to the 1930s and 1940s. It also offers a foretaste of things to come: Nancy is preparing a forum on the topic of toxic bodies that will be published in the October 2008 issue. Glenn Grasso's "What Appeared Limitless Plenty" builds on an earlier essay by Jeffrey Bolster ("Opportunities in Marine Environmental History," July 2006). Grasso focuses on the demise in the late nineteenth century of the halibut, a fish that has been too often overlooked by scholars in favor of more prized species such as cod and salmon. Finally, James Murton's "Creating Order" examines the draining of Sumas Lake in British Columbia in the 1920s, a cautionary tale about the limitations and contradictions of Canadian liberalism and the state's failure to comprehend environmental complexity.

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