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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Backouche, Isabelle. "From Parisian River to National Waterway: The Social Functions of the Seine, 1750–1850." In Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America, edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. 26–40. Looks at the shifting role of the River Seine to the population of Paris in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as economic and industrial development separated the river from the city's population.

Bakken, Gordon Morris. "The Mining Law of 1872." Montana the Magazine of Western History 58 (Summer 2008): 70–73. Looks at the history and impact of the Mining Law of 1872, including the negative environmental consequences such as Colorado's Summitville gold mine.

Barker, Michael. "The Liberal Foundations of Environmentalism: Revisiting the Rockefeller-Ford Connection." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 19 (June 2008): 15–42. Examination of the large foundation funding received by environmental organizations in the 1960s and 1970s, arguing that the grant-making practices of the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations have served to shift the environmental movement away from more radical ventures.

Blackbourn, David. "'Time is a Violent Torrent': Constructing and Reconstructing Rivers in Modern German History." In Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America, edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. 11–25. Looks at the relationships between river management and cultural and political history in Germany during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Bramwell, Lincoln. "Hotshots: The Origins and Work Culture of America's Elite Wildland Firefighters." New Mexico Historical Review 83 (Summer 2008): 291–322. A history of U.S. Forest Service Interagency Hotshot Crews, elite teams of rapid-response firefighters specializing in large wildfires, from the 1930s through the 1990s.

Breschinsky, Dimitri N. "Flights of Fancy: Birds in the Works of Loren Eiseley." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 15 (Winter 2008): 39–73. Examines the appearance of birds in the short stories of author Loren Eiseley, and their insight into Eiseley's art and philosophy.

Bullard, Robert D. "Dismantling Toxic Racism." Crisis 114 (4 2007): 22–25. Looks at events surrounding the fight by African-American homeowners in Warren County, North Carolina to oppose a toxic landfill in their community in 1979, and the impact of the fight on the larger environmental movement.

Campbell, Diane H. "A Darker Place: Helen Hoover's The Years of the Forest." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 15 (Winter 2008): 75–82. Looks at author Helen Hoover's treatment of the forest and wildlife in The Years of the Forest (1973).

Carr, David R. "Controlling the Butchers in Late Medieval English Towns." The Historian 70 (Fall 2008): 450–461. An examination of butchers and cattle markets in England during the 14th and 15th centuries, looking at issues of waste disposal, pollution, disease, and the enforcement of related local ordinances.

Carruthers, Jane. "Mapungubwe: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis of a World Heritage Cultural Landscape." Koedoe 49 (1 2006): 1–13. Examines the history of the Mapungubwe World Heritage cultural landscape, on the border of South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, arguing that the site's significance has been constructed within a specific cultural context.

Cassady, Joslyn. "A Tundra of Sickness: The Uneasy Relationship Between Toxic Waste, Tek, and Cultural Survival." Arctic Anthropology 44 (1 2007): 87–98. Examines the events and history surrounding the discovery of radioactive waste from 1950s atomic energy projects in Arctic Alaska in 1992. Also looks at theories of 'traditional ecological knowledge' (TEK) in response to toxic waste threats.

Closmann, Charles E. "Holding the Line: Pollution, Power, and Rivers in Yorkshire and the Ruhr, 1850–1990." In Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America, edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. 89–109. Contrasts the decentralized government approach to river management in Yorkshire, England with the more centralized approach taken by the German government in the Ruhr area between 1850 and 1990.. . .

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