| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4 | The History Cooperative

from the editor

THIS ISSUE begins with a reflection by Michael Lewis on an experiment in teaching local environmental history. The essay is instructive and inspiring. Lewis's essay also struck me as an incredibly powerful challenge to people who teach environmental history: No matter what our research interests, he argues, we all can and should make scholarly connections to the places where we work.

In a second "reflections"essay, Laura Watt, Leigh Raymond, and Meryl Eschen consider the similarities and differences in U. S. efforts to save endangered species and preserve historical places. The two efforts at first seem to be unrelated. But Watt, Raymond, and Eschen show that species protection and historical preservation have much in common, and their essay offers practical suggestions for the future as well as insight into the past.

The three articles in this issue address three very different issues. By looking at the ways early modern Europeans learned about tobacco, Peter Mancall offers new insight into one of the most fundamental questions in environmental history: How do living things become commodities? Rauno Lahtinen and Timo Vuorisalo assess the environmental effects of the two world wars on a Finnish city. Their work adds to the rapidly growing literature on the environmental history of war. By exploring the role of gender expectations in shaping the response of American conservationists to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Maril Hazlett sheds new light on the transition from conservation to environmentalism.

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