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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY (FHS) maintains an extensive computerized data bank of published sources related to environmental history. The biblioscope section of this journal includes just a selection of the new information that theFHS library adds to that data bank each quarter. The library indexes all entries in the data bank by topic, chronological period, and geographical area. The library staff will gladly provide additional information about particular items you see in this section or information on other topics from the data bank. The library is happy to respond to requests for full bibliographies or lists of archival collections that may be useful for specific research projects. The unabridged version of this Biblioscope is available on our website at http:// www.lib.duke.edu/forest/ehbiblio.html.

The compiler also welcomes information about relevant publications that the staff may have missed, including books, theses, and dissertations. The compiler particularly welcomes photocopies of relevant articles. The use of brackets in the following citations indicates that although the publication did not include the information, the compiler has added it.

Contact us by mail at Biblioscope, Forest History Society, 701 Wm. Vickers Avenue, Durham NC 27701 USA, or by telephone at 919/682-9319.

Books

Arabas, Karen, and Joe Bowersox, eds. Forest Futures: Science, Politics, and Policy for the Next Century. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. xlii + 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, references, index. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.95. Essays discussing the science guiding forest management policy in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the 1990s and 2000s. Topics covered include the Northwest Forest Plan, timber harvesting, endangered species protection, and sustainable forestry.

Coleman, Jon T. Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xv + 270 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.00. Examines the history of human attitudes and actions toward wolves in the United States since the early seventeenth century. Primarily discusses the many ways in which human beings attempted to eradicate the species over several centuries and efforts beginning in the mid-twentieth century to conserve and reintroduce the species to its former habitat.

Conte, Christopher A. Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 215 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95. Primarily twentieth-century-history of the environmental impacts of land use and forest utilization on the flora and fauna of the Usambara Mountains in the area of East Africa known today as Tanzania. Focuses especially on policies implemented under German colonial rule from 1890 to 1914, during the British colonial era from 1914 through 1961, and in the post-independence era of the late-twentieth century. Discusses such topics as mountain ecology, plantation agriculture, environmental conditions, deforestation, forest utilization, and forest conservation.

Cornebise, Alfred Emile. The CCC Chronicles: Camp Newspapers of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004. x + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, index. History of U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) journalism focusing especially on the newspaper Happy Days. Discusses how newspapers were created and distributed in CCC camps, who wrote for them, and the variety of information contained in the publications.

Cozine, James J., Jr. Saving the Big Thicket: From Exploration to Preservation, 1685–2003. Number 4 in the Temple Big Thicket Series. Denton: University of North Texas Press in association with the BigThicket Association, 2004. xii + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Based on the author's 1976 Ph.D. dissertation from Texas A&M University titled "Assault on a Wilderness: The Big Thicket of East Texas." Discusses the influence of such land uses as foraging, land settlement, railroad development, timber harvesting, and oil exploration on environmental conditions in this heavily forested region of southeastern Texas from the seventeenth century through the late twentieth century. Focuses on the conservation and environmental politics that led to the establishment of the Big Thicket National Preserve in 1974.

Delcourt, Paul A., and Hazel R. Delcourt. Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change: Human Ecosystems in Eastern North America since the Pleistocene. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 203 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $90.00. Paleoecological study examining the long-term impacts of human natural resource utilization and land use on the vegetation, landscape, and resources of eastern North America during the prehistoric era.

Desfor, Gene, and Roger Keil. Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xviii + 274 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Four case studies of ecological restoration in the cities of Toronto, Ontario, in Canada and Los Angeles, California, in the United States from the 1990s to the present. Examines efforts to remediate soil contamination, improve air quality, and regenerate the Don River in Ontario and the Los Angeles River in California. Includes discussion of land use, urban ecology, environmental regulation, and environmental justice.

Dolin, Eric Jay. Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xi + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95. Comprehensive history of the impact of waste management and sewage disposal in Boston, Massachusetts, on the water quality of Boston Harbor from the early seventeenth century to the present.

Earley, Lawrence S. Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. x + 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $27.50. Discusses such topics related to the history of the longleaf pine forests of the southern United States as: forest ecology, forest utilization, turpentining and the naval stores industry, forest health, forest management, and ecological restoration. Eighteenth through twentieth centuries.

Faust, Betty Bernice, Eugene N. Anderson, and John G. Frazier. Rights, Resources, Culture, and Conservation in the Land of the Maya. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xxi + 296 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, map, bibliography, index. Cultural anthropological work containing essays examining the role of women in shaping social, economic, and environmental conditions in Mayan communities on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula during the late twentieth century. Focuses particularly on women's involvement with the issues of human health, community development, human rights, land use, ecosystem management, and environmental conservation.

Fichman, Martin. An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. x + 382 pp. Bibliography, index. Biography of English naturalist and socialist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), whose scientific research led to the development of a theory about natural selection at the same time his contemporary Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was refining his own theory of Darwinism.

Forester, Jeff. The Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004. xiii + 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Ecological history of the forested region of northern Minnesota known today as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Focuses on human land use impacts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and discusses such topics as: lumbering, forest conservation, forest management policy, fire management, and wilderness preservation.

Foster, David R., and John D. Aber, eds. Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xiv + 477 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, bibliographic essay, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Essays examining human-induced and naturally occurring landscape changes that happened in the northeastern United States during the past one thousand years, focusing primarily on the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Includes discussion of such topics as: contemporary forest ecology; land use; climate change; wildlife dynamics; forest conservation; environmental change; and forest dynamics. The authors incorporate data obtained through long-term research experiments conducted at the Harvard Forest in Massachusetts that simulated stresses and disturbances to soils, wildlife, and natural resources in the forest ecosystem of New England.

Frison, George C. Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xix + 266 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Archaeological study of the subsistence hunting practices of humans, the types of prey they hunted, and their use of landscape features and various other tools to trap, kill, and skin animals in the Great Plains region of North America during the prehistoric era.

Harris, Richard. Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900–1960. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Discusses the influence of transportation networks, city planning, housing policies, and employment opportunities on the growth of suburbs in early-twentieth-century Canada, as well as the social and environmental implications of suburbanization.

Horowitz, Daniel. Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s. The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech of July 15, 1979: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston, Mass.: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005. xix + 203 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, index. Examines economic, social, and political factors prominent in the culture of the United States during the decade of the 1970s that influenced President Jimmy Carter's 1979 speech on the relationship between personal morality and American dependence on foreign oil.

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. xiii + 293 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $34.95. Examines changes in the built environment and urban landscape of the United States caused by the construction of parking lots in urban and suburban areas to accommodate increasing use of automobiles during the twentieth century.

Lazarus, Richard J. The Making of Environmental Law. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xvi + 318 pp. Notes, index. $35.00. Discusses cultural, political, legal, and scientific factors that have influenced the development of laws in the United States to protect the environment, control pollution, conserve natural resources, and preserve wildlife species since the 1970s.

Leal, Robert Barry. Wilderness in the Bible: Toward a Theology of Wilderness. Studies in Biblical Literature, v. 72. New York: P. Lang, 2004. xii + 357 pp. Examines attitudes toward wilderness expressed in the Bible and theological studies of ecological relationships in the biblical record, arguing that such research is significant to the formulation of a twenty-first-century theology of wilderness.

Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. For Shade and for Comfort: Democratizing Horticulture in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2004. xix + 337 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Examines the explosion of interest in ornamental plants and gardening in the midwestern United States from the 1850s through the 1880s, and explores the cultural significance of horticulture as well as its impact on domestic landscapes during the era. Based on the author's 1998 Ph.D. dissertation titled "For Shade and Comfort: Ornamental Plants in Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Domestic Landscapes" and completed at Western Michigan University.

Mason, Kathy S. Natural Museums: U.S. National Parks, 1872–1916. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004. vi + 108 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper $24.95. Examines attitudes toward, philosophies about, and policies for the establishment and management of national parks and reserves in the United States prior to the founding of the United States National Park Service in 1916. Argues that during this era people typically viewed American parks as monuments to nature on a grand scale and perceived the regions as generally unsuitable for farming, lumbering, mining, or other economic uses.

Merchant, Carolyn. Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. New York: Routledge, 2004. xii + 308 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Evaluates (1) ancient and medieval narratives of nature; (2) perceptions of declining nature that arose during the Scientific Revolution; (3) gender imagery associated with nature in the United States during and after colonialism; (4) the role of Native Americans, African-Americans, and other ethnic minorities in shaping the environmental history of the United States; (5) the commodification of nature in the United States and the role of biotechnology in shaping modern attitudes toward nature; and (6) late-twentieth-century sustainability narratives. The author calls for the emergence of a new environmental ethic based on a partnership between nature and humanity that will transcend gender, ethnic, religious, and political differences in the twenty-first century.

Michaels, Patrick J. Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2004. vii + 271 pp. Figures, maps, bibliography, index. $24.95. The author uses factual research that includes a historical perspective to critique the claims of politicians, policy makers, media representatives, and scientists who have manipulated scientific research on global warming and climate change to promote a particular viewpoint. Michaels argues that politics and economic funding opportunities too often negatively impact the production of environmental science in the United States. Focuses primarily on the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Nelson, Daniel. Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2004. vii + 312 pp. Map, notes, index. Cloth $36.95, paper $22.95. Studies political aspects of nature conservation and wilderness preservation in Alaska during the twentieth century. Focuses especially on the environmental activism of the late twentieth century that culminated in the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980.

Orsi, Jared. Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 276 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. On the use of hydraulic engineering and water planning to prevent flooding in California from the 1880s through the 2000s. Discusses such topics as: urban growth, water management, water resources development, water politics, environmentalism, urban ecology, and the San Gabriel Dam fiasco. Based on the author's 1999 Ph.D. dissertation by the same title from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Philander, S. George. Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. x + 275 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Examines changes in human perceptions of this natural phenomenon since the nineteenth century, focusing on the history of scientific research into the causes, functions, and implications of this weather event. Discusses the relationship of El Niño to La Niña, climate change, and the fields of climatology, oceanography, and meteorology.

Rhodes, Richard. Audubon: The Making of an American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. x + 514 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $30.00. Biography of American naturalist, ornithologist, and animal painter John James Audubon (1785–1851).

Robinson, David M. Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv + 234 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper $24.95. Discusses Henry David Thoreau's (1817–1862) Transcendental beliefs, interest in natural history, and philosophy of nature.

Rosner, Lisa, ed. The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology To Create and Solve Problems. New York: Routledge, 2004. 265 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. Paper $24.95. Examines the positive and negative aspects of technological innovations developed to improve nutritional health, advance medical science, modernize agricultural and labor production, control pollution, and modify weather and climate conditions. See especially chapters in part three, "Fixing the Environment," which discuss technological aspects of twentieth-century environmental problems in the United States.

Shortridge, James R. Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xiv + 480 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. On the development of public institutions, industries, and transportation networks in the primary cities of Kansas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes discussion of such topics as: railway expansion; the mining industry; irrigation; and urban growth, especially in Lawrence and Topeka.

Slotten, Ross A. The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. viii + 602 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Extensive biography of English spiritualist and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913). Wallace spent much of his life collecting natural history specimens from around the world, and he developed his own theory of natural selection while fellow English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was refining his theory of Darwinism.

Souder, William. Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America. New York: North Point Press, 2004. 367 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Biographical study of American ornithologist and wildlife artist John James Audubon (1785–1851) focusing on his work for this book.

Stonebanks, Roger. Fighting for Dignity: The Ginger Goodwin Story. St. John's [N.L.]: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2004. 206 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Biography of this socialist coal miner and labor union leader who recruited working class union members from the Canadian resource industries in British Columbia during the first two decades of twentieth century. Goodwin died while attempting to evade conscription during the First World War.

Wallace, Linda L., ed. After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. x + 390 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, references, list of contributors, index. $55.00. Essays on the ecological impacts of the 1988 Yellowstone fires on forests, wildlife, and landscapes in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. See especially the historical perspective provided in chapter two by Sarah H. Millspaugh, Cathy Whitlock, and Patrick J. Bartlein, "Postglacial Fire, Vegetation, and Climate History of the Yellowstone-Lamar and Central Plateau Provinces, Yellowstone National Park" (pp. 10–28).

Walsh, Virginia M. Global Institutions and Social Knowledge: Generating Research at the Scripps Institution and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 1900s–1990s. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. xvi + 171 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $20.00. Examines the impact of global research institutions on the generation and acceptance of scientific knowledge internationally. Focuses specifically on the influence of the Scripps Institution from 1905 to 1970 and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission from 1950 to 1998 on international environmental governance relating to such oceanographic topics as: submarine warfare; thermonuclear testing; climate change; radiation ecology; fisheries research; conservation; sustainability; fishery regulation; and dolphin rotection.

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