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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOSCOPE

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 the FHS 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

Adams, Sean P. Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiv + 305 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Compares the economic policies of the southern and northern United States that led to greater production in the coal mining industry of Pennsylvania than in Virginia's coal trade during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Based on the author's 1999 Ph.D. dissertation titled "Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths: The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810–1875".

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xi + 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $37.50. Discusses the role of livestock (1) in the settlement of colonial America by European immigrants and (2) in the development of social conflict between colonials and Native Americans as settlers appropriated Indian land through frontier expansion; seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Andonova, Liliana B. Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. x + 251 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the influence of European Union (EU) environmental regulations on the environmental policies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland during the decade of the 1990s. Asserts that industries serving international markets, such as the chemical industry, have generally willingly complied with EU standards to be more competitive in a transnational economy, whereas industries serving domestic markets, such as electric utilities, have tended to resist implementing EU standards.

Blackburn, Jim. The Book of Texas Bays. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. xi + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $40.00. Discusses the coastal ecology and natural history of bays along the Texas coast. Includes some history of natural resource utilization and nature conservation in the region during the late twentieth century.

Bocking, Stephen. Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 298 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Examines the role of science in shaping modern ideas about and policies addressing international environmental issues. Discusses such topics as: global climate change, ozone depletion, environmental policy, environmental politics, environmental health, and natural resource management; late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Carrier, James G., ed. Confronting Environments: Local Understanding in a Globalizing World. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2004. viii+198 pp. Bibliography, index. Essays by international researchers dealing with the various factors shaping people's understandings of their environments, considering both local events and regional-and global-scale political-economic forces. Essayists discuss topics as diverse as environmental change in the Dominican Republic, the Greek islands, and Pakistan; community response to pollution in Tokyo; and forestry policy in Finland, primarily from the 1970s through 2004.

Castonguqy, Stéphane. Protection des cultures, construction de la nature: Agriculture, foresterie et entomologie au Canada 1884–1959. Cahiers des Amériques 7. Sillery, [Quebec]: Septentrion, 2004. 366 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selective bibliography, index. Protection of Cultures, Construction of Nature: Agriculture, Forestry and Entomology in Canada 1884–1959. Examines the contributions of the Canadian government to the development of scientific research in the field of forest entomology during this era. Discusses occurrences of insect infestations, their impact on the environment, and the evolution of scientific agricultural management philosophy. Text in French.

Christie, D. A., and E. M. Tansey, eds. Environmental Toxicology: The Legacy of Silent Spring. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine series, vol. 19. London [England]: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, 2004. xxi + 110 pp. Notes, references, glossary, index. Edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London on 12 March 2002. Conversations between clinicians, scientists, nurses, doctors, and patients about the legacy of American biologist Rachel Carson's (1907–1964) groundbreaking 1962 book Silent Spring on the growth of scientific and political understanding of environmental toxicology in the United Kingdom and Europe through the early twenty-first century. Topics covered include the health risks of: passive smoking, asbestos, lead, radon, air pollution, and toxic pollution of water. Coleman, Annie Gilbert. Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xii + 299 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Cultural history of snow skiing in the United States since its introduction by Scandinavian immigrants in the late nineteenth century. Discusses the sport's relationship to such topics as outdoor recreation, tourism, wilderness, leisure, consumerism, resort development, sense of place, regional identity, economic development, landscape appreciation, labor identity, gender identity, and class identity.

Christofferson, Bill. The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. vii + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Political biography of environmentalist and politician Gaylord Nelson (1916- ) focusing especially on his role in promoting natural resource conservation and environmental protection in the United States as a Wisconsin state senator (1949–1957), as governor of Wisconsin (1959–1963), as a senator in the United States Congress (1963–1981), and as founder of Earth Day in 1970.

Coleman, Kate. The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First! 1st ed. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005. 261 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $25.95. Biography of Judy Bari, Northern California environmentalist and member of Earth First! during the 1980s and 1990s.

Colten, Craig E. An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xiii + 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $39.95. Discusses urban development, flood control, wetland management, human ecology, and the engineering of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1800 through 2000.

Cornell, Thomas D. Establishing Research Corporation: A Case Study of Patents, Philanthropy, and Organized Research in Early Twentieth-Century America. Edited by James E. Turner. Tucson, Ariz.: Research Corporation, 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. On the early history of Research Corporation, a philanthropic organization that supports scientific research at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, from its founding in 1912 into the 1920s when an organized approach to funded research became more popular in American scientific circles. Discusses the events that led to the founding of the company by Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948), a chemistry professor at the University of California at Berkeley who invented in 1906 a method for limiting the amount of smoke pollution released into air by factories, smelters, and other industrial enterprises.

Elzinga, Aant, et al., eds. Antarctic Challenges: Historical and Current Perspectives on Otto Nordenskjöld's Antarctic Expedition 1901–1903. ACTA Regiae Societatis Scientiarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis Interdisciplinaria 5. Göteborg [Sweden]: Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, 2004. 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, references, list of contributors. Papers drawn from an international symposium held at the University of Göteborg in Sweden 10–13 May 2001 in celebration of Otto Nordenskjöld's 1901–1903 Swedish Antarctic Expedition. Essays discuss such topics as the Antarctic whaling industry, the natural history of Antarctica, glacial history, Nordenskjöld's (1869–1928) scientific career and oceanographic expeditions, and meteorological, climatological, and ecological aspects of the 1901–1903 expedition.

Fickle, James E. Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi for Mississippi Forestry Foundation, Incorporated, 2004. Black and white pictures of topics related to forests and forestry in Mississippi from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes scenes of logging, log transportation, logging equipment and machinery, sawmills, logging railroads, logging trucks, fire towers, turpentining, reforestation, and the pulp and paper, naval stores, timber, and forest products industries.

Foltz, Bruce V., and Robert Frodeman, eds. Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. Notes, list of contributors, index. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95. Essays discussing such topics as biological diversity, environmental ethics, landscape aesthetics, theology, and the influence of science and technology on environmental philosophy. Includes some historical examination of earlier philosophers whose ideas influenced modern understandings of environmental problems.

Fritzbøger, Bo. 'A Windfall for the Magnates': The Development of Woodland Ownership in Denmark c. 1150–1830. University of Southern Denmark Studies in History and Social Sciences vol. 282. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark; distributed in the United States and Canada by International Specialized Book Services of Portland, Oregon, 2004. xii + 432 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Examines woodland ownership in Denmark from the Middle Ages through the early nineteenth century, focusing especially on the transition from feudal common property rights to individual private capitalist land ownership. Discusses such topics as: forest policy, forest utilization, woodland management, forest law and legislation, timber depredation, forest conservation, silviculture, and sustainability.

Goldstein, Robert J. Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Green Wood in the Bundle of Sticks. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 196 pp. Bibliography, index. $99.95. Critiques the effectiveness of environmental law and legislation enacted in the United States since the 1970s, discussing such topics as: environmental ethics, property rights, land use policy, pollution control, and moral and ethical aspects of environmental protection.

Hoose, Phillip. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird. New York: Melanie Kroupa Books, 2004. 196 pp. Illustrations, references, glossary, index. Discusses human actions that resulted in habitat loss and the eventual extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker as well as efforts to protect the endangered species; United States, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes a chronology tracing important historical events associated with bird conservation and the history of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

Husted, Bette Lynch. Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004. vi + 168 pp. Illustrations. The author reminisces about her family life growing up in the Clearwater River Valley of Idaho in the mid-twentieth century. Husted discusses her experiences learning about race relations, land tenure, water rights, the Nez Perce Indian culture, and other issues unique to the region.

Juuti, Petri S., and Tapio S. Katko, eds. From a Few to All: Long-term Development of Water and Environmental Services in Finland. [Pieksämäki, Finland]: KehräMedia Inc., 2004. 175 pp. Essays discussing environmental, scientific, social, political, and technological aspects of water supply, water resources development, water pollution, waste management, and sanitation in Finland since the early nineteenth century.

Kirkendall, Richard S., ed. Harry's Farewell: Interpreting and Teaching the Truman Presidency. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xv + 381 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. $44.95. Essays drawn from a conference held 15–18 July 2003 at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, discussing President Harry S. Truman's (1884–1972) presidential impact on the United States from 1945 to 1953 in terms of the economy, civil rights, nuclear warfare, communism, women's rights, ethnicity, and the environment. See especially the chapter by Karl Brooks titled "A Legacy in Concrete: The Truman Presidency Transforms America's Environment" (pp. 299–322).

Klein, Bernhard, and Gesa Mackenthun, eds. Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. New York: Routledge, 2004. ix + 219 pp Illustrations, bibliography, index. Explores the ocean as a contact zone, both imagined and real, in which cultures have met, clashed, and grappled with each other.

Kunen, Julie L. Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change in the Wetlands of Belize. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona Number 69. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. x + 174 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. On the management and use of land and natural resources in Mayan communities in the wetlands of northwestern Belize from 400 B.C. to A.D. 850. Discusses agricultural terracing and other farming techniques as well as community settlement structures, social interactions, and Mayan interaction with the local environment.

Losos, Elizabeth C., and Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., eds. Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism: Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiii + 645 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, references, index. Paper $38.00. Essays drawn from a 1998 symposium organized by the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) and held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., discussing forestry research produced during the 1980s and especially the 1990s on the ecology and dynamics of tropical forests around the world. Includes qualitative and quantitative data gathered from individual tree plots coordinated by the CTFS. See especially chapter two by Stephen P. Hubbell titled "Two Decades of Research on the BCI Forest Dynamics Plot: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going" (pp. 8–30).

Macdougall, Doug. Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xi + 256 pp. Illustrations, suggested reading, index. $24.95. Studies the causes of and global environmental changes resulting from glaciation from prehistoric times to the present. Includes discussion of the evolution of scientific research in the field of paleoclimatology.

MacMahon, Darcie A., and William H. Marquardt. The Calusa and Their Legacy: South Florida People and Their Environments. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xiv + 183 pp. Illustrations, notes, suggested reading, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviews the cultural history of Calusa Indians who lived for thousands of years in southwestern Florida, focusing on their social life and customs, fishing practices, and the natural history of the coastal environment that supported the culture.

Maynard, W. Barksdale. Walden Pond: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 404 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Discusses perceptions of nature and land uses associated with Walden Pond and Walden Woods in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from the early-nineteenth century through the early-twenty-first century. Focuses specifically on the significance of the region to author Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) and the impact of his work on the popularity of and attitudes toward Walden Pond.

Meine, Curt. Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004. xiv + 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00. Essays adapted and updated from previously published journals and books examining the impacts of economics, politics, and cultural perspectives on the evolution of conservation in the United States since the late nineteenth century. The author discusses the enduring legacy of the conservation philosophy developed by American wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) and emphasizes the importance of adapting conservation goals to twenty-first-century realities.

Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment. Rev. ed. History of the Urban Environment Series. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. xvi + 302 pp. Bibliographical notes, index. Refuse management as both an engineering and an aesthetic problem in the United States since the late 19th century.

Outland, Robert B., III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xii + 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $47.95. Examines economic, environmental, and social aspects of turpentine and naval stores production in the longleaf pine forests of the southern United States; eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.

Parry, William T. All Veins, Lodes, and Ledges Throughout Their Entire Depth: Geology and the Apex Law in Utah Mines. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. ix + 139 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Reviews the origins of mining law in Utah during the 1860s and 1870s; examines legal disputes that arose over rights to mining claims in the state; and discusses geological concepts related to Utah mining claims in the late nineteenth century.

Philip, Kavita. Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources, and Modernity in Colonial South India. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. viii + 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Studies interconnections between ideas about race, natural resources, technological progress, and colonialism and examines their impact on society in southern India during British colonial rule from the 1850s to the 1930s. Discusses such topics as forest science, plantation agriculture, ethnography, religion, and imperialism.

Price, John. Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xi + 225 pp. Notes, bibliography. Personal memoir of the author's attempts to connect to the environment of his native Dakota grasslands through travel and interviews with other authors such as John Price, William Least-Heat Moon, Dan O'Brien, Linda Hasselstrom, and Mary Swander.

Quaratiello, Arlene Rodda. Rachel Carson: A Biography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. xviii + 138 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Recounts the life of American biologist Rachel Carson (1907–1964), whose 1962 book Silent Spring revealed the dangers of pesticides to human health is credited with sparking the environmental movement in the United States.

Quiring, David M. CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan: Battling Parish Priests, Bootleggers, and Fur Sharks. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 2004. xii + 356 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Tommy Douglas, elected in 1944, targeted the Hudson's Bay Company, non-Aboriginal fur traders, and the Catholic Church in its efforts to wrest control of northern Saskatchewan from its exploiters. The author argues that while trying to improve the lot of Aboriginal peoples, the CCF actually contributed to a sense of displacement because of its colonial approach.

Randolph, John N. The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness: Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xi+263 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. One of Alabama's leading conservation advocates relates the political history of grassroots efforts between 1967 and 1999 to establish the state's three National Forest Wilderness areas: the Sipsey Wilderness Area in the Bankhead National Forest, and the Cheaha and Dugger Mountain Wilderness Areas in the Talledega National Forest.

Reid, Jan, ed. Rio Grande. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xxiii + 337 pp. Illustrations, list of contributors. $29.95. Essays, short stories, reprinted newspaper and magazine articles, and excerpts from novels, historical accounts, and personal memoirs written by such leading authors as Larry McMurtry, Woody Guthrie, and Molly Ivins discussing the political, cultural, ecological, and historical importance of the river to the surrounding arid border region between the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Robbins, William G. Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Foreword by William Cronon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xxiii + 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Discusses economic, political, and social aspects of human-induced environmental change in Oregon. Covers such topics as: agriculture, pesticides, forest planning, the timber industry, environmental activism, conservation politics, water management, land use, and urban sprawl. Continues the author's historical analysis presented in his 1997 book Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800–1940 (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

Rodriguez, Ileana. Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. xix + 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Examines changing topographical representations and perceptions of landscapes in Latin America from the colonial era of the eighteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Discusses the impact of perceptions of nature on the development of a sense of place associated with the Amazon River Region, the Caribbean, and Central America.

Roseman, Curtis C., and Elizabeth M. Roseman, eds. Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River: Places, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. xiv + 252 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. In 1854 the Grand Excursion carried hundreds of dignitaries on a combination rail and steamboat ride from Chicago to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory to celebrate this new route to the developing West. This collection of essays explores the Excursion, travel experiences of the time, the Mississippi River as a gateway to the West, and more contemporary issues involved in management of the river's natural resources.

Schiebinger, Londa L. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. x + 306 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Colonial botanical explorers' discovery of the traditional use of the Pride-of-Barbados plant and other plant species as abortifacients by slave women in the Caribbean during the eighteenth century.

Shugart, H. H. How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 227 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $27.50. Examines from a historical perspective the impact of human activities, animal actions, and natural vegetation variations on global ecology and environmental change.

Steen, Harold K. The Chiefs Remember: The Forest Service, 1952–2001. 1st ed. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2004. xv + 156 pp. Illustrations, index. Cloth, $29.00, paper $20.00. Excerpts from oral history interviews with Forest Service chiefs whose tenures spanned the last half of the 20th century. They discuss the rapid changes and increasing controversy that impacted the operations of the agency.

Troesken, Werner. Water, Race, and Disease. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. xvii + 251 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, references, index. Waterborne diseases, water filtration, and related environmental justice issues in the U.S. South from the 1890s to the 1940s.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 321 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $59.50, paper $17.95. On the economic and political aspects of rainforest depletion in Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s. The author focuses on the Meratus Mountains region and discusses especially the role of globalization and international relations in shaping the forest economy of Indonesia.

van Riper III, Charles, and Kenneth L. Cole, eds. The Colorado Plateau: Cultural, Biological, and Physical Research. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2004. xiii + 279 pp. Illustrations, tables, index. Include some discussion of human impacts on the region from prehistoric times to the late 20th century. Volume is based on research presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, 2001.

Wateman, Richard W., Amelia A. Rouse, and Robert L. Wright. Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. xiii + 167 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. The authors contrast the role of bureaucratic politics in shaping the regulatory actions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water and the New Mexico Environment Department in the late twentieth century, especially during the 1990s. Uses survey research data to compare the political agendas, environmental management goals, budgets, bureaucratic structure, constituents, employee beliefs, and work of these two agencies charged with protection of the environment at the federal and state levels, respectively.

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