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biblioscope

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://foresthistory.org/Research/biblio.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

Agrawal, Arun. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi+325 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95. Analyzes the transformation in Kumaon, northern India, from a place where villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the 1920s to protest British colonial environmental regulations to a site of community-based forest conservation by the 1990s. Includes a history of struggles over Kumaon's forests since 1815. Encourages an approach called "environmentality"—combining scholarship on common lands, political ecology, and feminist environmentalism—to understand changes in conservation efforts.

Anderson, M. Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. xxix+526 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources since prehistory, aiming to reshape modern understandings of native cultures and to show how their knowledge might be used in conservation efforts. Provides extensive information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Californians, presenting them as active agents of environmental change and stewardship.

Anglonetti, Mauro. The Evolution of the Landscape in the Migliarino Estate Between the 19th and 20th Century. Florence: Edizioni Regione Toscana, 2005. 107 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, bibliography. Investigates landscape dynamics and change inside Tuscany's regional protected areas, the Regional Park of the Apuan Alps and the Regional Park of Migliarino, San Rossore and Massaciuccoli, from the 19th to the 20th century. Text in Italian and English.

Anglonetti, Mauro. Landscape Changes, Biodiversity and Hydrogeological Risk in the Area of Cardoso Between 1832 and 2002. Florence: Edizioni Regione Toscana, 2005. 115 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, bibliography. Investigates landscape dynamics and change inside Tuscany's regional protected areas, the Regional Park of the Apuan Alps and the Regional Park of Migliarino, San Rossore and Massaciuccoli, between 1832 and 2002. Focuses specifically on the relationships between landscape, biodiversity, and hydrogeology. Text in Italian and English.

Bantjes, Rod. Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869–1944. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xi+204 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. History of the creation of what the author calls "abstract spaces of modernity" in the Canadian prairies, especially rural Saskatchewan, from 1869 to 1944. Explores the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, proposing the prairies as sites of modernity and prairie farmers as "modernists" who actively transformed their environment.

Beesley, David. Crow's Range: An Environmental History of the Entire Sierra Nevada Range. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xx+464 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Examines the history of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range from earliest times, including its geologic development, Native American inhabitants, exploration, settlement, ecology, political contexts, and modern uses for recreation. Highlights the California Gold Rush, mining and supporting industries, and state and national parks.

Benson, Fayrene, Jimm Jacobs, and Bob Burke. The Traveling Timber Towns. Oklahoma City: Commonwealth Press, 2004. 270 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, glossary. Documents logging camp life during the early twentieth century in the "traveling towns" of Clebit and Alikchi, Oklahoma, owned by the Choctaw Lumber & Coal Company. Based on oral histories, focuses on the people who inhabited the traveling lumber camps and highlights their contributions to the timber industry in Oklahoma.

Bjornerud, Marcia. Reading the Rocks: An Autobiography of the Earth. New York: Westview Press, 2005. xi+237 pp. Glossary, notes, index. $26.00. "Armchair" guide to the Earth's history and systems as seen through geology.

Bonell, Michael, and Sampurno Bruijnzeel, eds. Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics: Past, Present and Future Hydrological Research for Integrated Land Management. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii+925 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables. Review of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rainforests, the environmental impacts of their disturbance and exploitation, and strategies for managing them. Includes essays by experts in tropical anthropology, human geography, climatology, geomorphology, forestry, and other disciplines. Part of the International Hydrology Series, a collaborative between UNESCO and Cambridge University.

Boomgaard, Peter, and David Henley, eds. Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. vii+344 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 30.00. Survey of the history of foodcrop farming and animal husbandry in the Southeast Asian region. Thirteen essays by international authors cover a variety of geographical and time scales, on topics ranging from the agricultural economy of precolonial Java, to the growth of rice production in the Mekong Delta since 1950, to the production and consumption of beef in the Philippines.

Bosso, Christopher J. Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xiv+194 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. Describes how America's leading environmental advocacy groups, from the Sierra Club to the Rainforest Action Network, evolved from amorphous 1960s movements into fixtures of national politics in the early twenty-first century. Examines the increasing professionalism and bureaucracy of such organizations over time, considering how movements founded as antiestablishment have become an establishment in their own right.

Botkin, Daniel B. Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii+284 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $38.00. Traces the footsteps of Lewis and Clark on their 1804–1806 expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific coast, reviewing various sites they visited and recounting their experiences at those sites. Describes the same sites as they exist in the early twenty-first century, examining how the Western landscape has changed over time.

Campbell, Carlos C. Memories of Old Smoky: Early Experiences in the Great Smoky Mountains. Edited by Rebecca Campbell Arrants. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. xviii+223 pp. Map, illustrations, figures, bibliography, index. Memoir/guidebook to the Great Smoky Mountains originally written in 1967 by Carlos C. Campbell (1892–1978), one of the principal figures in the 1920s movement to have the Smokies established as a national park. Edited by his granddaughter, Rebecca Campbell Arrants.

Carlson, Laurie Winn. William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. 210 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. $39.95. Places the life of William J. Spillman (1863–1931), a Missourian considered the founder of agricultural economics, within the larger context of American agricultural history. Examines the shaping of U.S. agricultural policy within the United States Department of Agriculture in the early twentieth century through Spillman's eyes, arguing that industrialized agriculture was not a foregone conclusion, but a carefully constructed ideology that farmers were pushed to accept.

Cunfer, Geoff. On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. xii+292 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00. Uses case studies, GIS mapping, census data, diaries and farm journals, and other sources to reassess the interaction between farmers and nature on the Great Plains agricultural landscape from 1870 through the end of the twentieth century. Argues that despite dramatic population fluctuations, natural changes, and technological developments, land use in the region has remained remarkably stable.

Daston, Lorraine, and Gregg Mitman, eds. Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. vi+230 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $49.50. Investigates the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and settings, drawing on the insights of anthropologists, ethnologists, filmmakers, historians of science, philosophers, and photographers. Offers a sampling of the uses of anthropomorphism and its transformative effects on both humans and animals alike.

DeVoto, Bernard. DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. xxxv+275 pp. Bibliography, index. $44.95. Collects highlights of social commentator and western historian Bernard DeVoto's writings about the conservation of the American West, 1927–1955.

Diefendorf, Jeffry M., and Kurk Dorsey, eds. City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. viii+296 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $22.95. Collection of essays by diverse scholars examining how human and natural forces work together in the creation of cities, empires, and the countryside, from the seventeenth century through the 2000s. Emphasizes two emerging trends in the field of environmental history: increasing internationalization of research, and viewing urban spaces as an intrinsic part of the global environment.

Dilworth, Richardson. The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x+267 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $49.95. Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, explores the process of metropolitan fragmentation, by which suburban communities break off and from separate political entities. Examines effects of the development of urban infrastructure in the late nineteenth century, arguing that the roots of the modern-day urban crisis lie in the interaction between technology, politics, and public works in the city.

Evans, J. Claude. With Respect for Nature: Living as Part of the Natural World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xvii+280 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Examines human participation in natural cycles of life and death of plants and animals, questioning common wisdom in environmental ethics such as that espoused by Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) and Paul Taylor.

Garner, Alice. A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823–2000. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. ix+286 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Traces the social and cultural impacts of the transformation of Bassin d'Arcachon, a prime fishing and oyster-farming site in southwestern France, now one of the country's most popular beach resorts, from its nineteenth-century roots as a traditional fishing community.

Gutfreund, Owen D. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv+297 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Examines how highways, and the government policies that control them, have transformed American communities during the twentieth century. Uses case studies of Denver, Colorado; Middlebury, Vermont; and Smyrna, Tennessee.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xxix+346 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and the international focus of American oceanographers, taking into account the roles of the U.S. Navy, United States foreign policy, and scientists throughout the world. Explores the extent to which oceanographers used international cooperation to pursue patronage from military, government, and commercial sponsors as they sought support for their work.

Johnsgard, Paul A. Prairie Dog Empire: A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xvi+243 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. $29.95. History of black-tailed prairie dogs on the Great Plains, describing their habitats, behavior, and role in the prairie ecosystem, and how these have been altered and damaged by human intervention over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Karan, Pradyumna P. Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. xii+401 pp. Maps, figures, photographs, further reading, index. $75.00. Offers insight into Japan's early twenty-first century realities and investigates the political, economic, demographic, and environmental challenges that confront the nation and will shape its future in the world. Provides an overview of Japan's geography, cultural heritage, demography, economic and political development since ca. 10,000 B.C.

Keever, Beverly Deepe. News Zero: The New York Times and the Bomb. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2004. 374 pp. Map, tables, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95. Case study critiquing press coverage of American nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific from 1946–1962, specifically omissions and obfuscation in New York Times coverage of radiation and radioactivity.

MacDonald, Samuel A. The Agony of an American Wilderness: Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. x+185 pp. Index, notes. $65.00. Addresses questions of who should control and decide the future of America's forests, through the case of Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. An environmental success story from the early 1990s, activists are now using it as a proving ground for a campaign to end logging altogether. Explains the early twenty-first century goals of environmentalists in the Allegheny and examines the communities caught in the political crossfire.

Mark, Steven R. Preserving the Living Past: John C. Merriam's Legacy in the State and National Parks. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2005. xvi+204 pp. Illustrations, notes, further reading, index. Overview of the contributions of John C. Merriam (1869–1945), paleontologist and cofounder in 1918 of the influential Save-the-Redwoods League in California, to the American conservation movement. Portrays Merriam as an environmental visionary who believed in the inspirational power of wilderness.

McCann, James. Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii+289 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95. Account of the introduction and spread of maize in Africa, from its entry as an insignificant import in the sixteenth century to its twenty-first century status as Africa's pillar of subsistence and the engine of the continent's agro-industry.

McDonnell, Janet A. Oral History Interview with Roger G. Kennedy. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2005. v+60 pp. Illustrations. Oral history interviews conducted on occasions in 2002–2003 with Roger G. Kennedy, director of the National Park Service from 1993 to 1997, who oversaw a major restructuring of the Service during his tenure.

Mitchell, Alanna. Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 239 pp. Selected bibliography, index. $25.00. Travelogue/journalistic investigation of some of the world's most environmentally endangered areas, including the island of Madagascar, the rain forests of Suriname, Jordan, Banks Island, Iceland, and, ultimately, the Galapagos archipelago, where the author revisits Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and mass extinction.

Mortimer, Clifford. Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of an Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human Activities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. xix+310 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $45.00. Combining history, science, and public policy, chronicles inquiry into Lake Michigan, from Native Americans to French explorers to twenty-first century scientists. Explains the biology, chemistry, physics, natural processes, and geologic history of the lake.

Nelson, Megan Kate. Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xvii+262 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. History of how the peculiar and ambiguous ecology of the Okefenokee swamped shaped the borderland culture of southern Georgia and northern Florida, from the formation of the Georgia colony in 1732 through the end of the Great Depression. Examining the collisions among the region's divergent inhabitants, from timber barons to Seminoles to fugitive slaves, explores how local cultures form out of ecosystems.

Orsi, Richard J. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii+615 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. $29.95. Extensive study of the Southern Pacific Railroad from the founding of its earliest predecessors in Texas and California to its final amalgamation in the 1920s. Combines corporate and social history, showing the impact of the railroad on aspects of land settlement, agriculture, water policy, urban development, and the environment. Presents a new view of the Southern as a benevolent capitalist monolith focused on gaining wealth by fostering development and beneficial commercial opportunities, while conserving wilderness and resources.

Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xvi+592 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $49.00. Examines and compares Manchester, England and Chicago, Illinois in holistic terms, as archetypal cities which heralded the advent of industrialization during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Explores how industrialization spurred the reorganization of urban areas, and how the ruling classes politically manipulated urban space for financial gain, often to the detriment of the environment.

Righter, Robert W. The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxiv+303 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $30.00. Story of the controversy over the proposed damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park in the wake of San Francisco's disastrous 1906 earthquake and fire. Presents the ensuing protest, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, as the first major environmental battle of the twentieth century.

Rose, Gene. Giants Among the Forests: One Hundred Years on the Sequoia National Forest. Tollhouse, Calif.: Three Forests Interpretive Association, 2005. xi+180 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. History of the Sequoia National Forest from its founding in 1908 up through the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Rozwadowksi, Helen M. Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xv+276 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.95. An in-depth examination of a crucial era in the development of modern oceanography, the mid-nineteenth century, primarily in America and Britain. Integrates cultural factors with the scientific push to understand the nature of the oceans.

Sackman, Douglas Cazaux. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. London and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi+386 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00. History of the orange industry in California since the 1870s: how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape, turning it into a factory for mass production. Oranges were portrayed by the industry as embodiments of pure nature; explores how Depression-era figures like Dorothea Lange, and John Steinbeck turned that image on its ear by making the orange industry into a symbol of what was wrong with America's relation to nature.

Saikku, Mikko. This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xvii+373 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $54.95. Comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, placing economic and cultural history in an environmental context. Argues that a long-term view across thousands of years, rather than the typical approach which privileges the period since the Civil War, is necessary to understand the region's complexities and transformation. Using a wide variety of sources, deals with the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slavery and sharecropping, and other issues of race and ethnicity.

Schrepfer, Susan R. Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2005. xii+316 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Explores how mountains have played a dramatic role in shaping American ideas about wilderness environmental regulation, 1860s–1970s. Especially compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected perceptions of mountains, and examines how women's ideas, language, and activism helped shape American environmentalism just as did men's.

Seefeldt, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf, eds. Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. x+224 pp. Notes, index. Collection of essays devoted to the 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark expedition on the occasion of its bicentennial. Essays explore the geopolitical context and mythology of Lewis and Clark in early twenty-first century society, and connect their journey with the broader sweep of North American history.

Selden, Paul, and John Nudds. Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, appendix, index. $40.00. Summarizes fourteen well-preserved fossil sites, known scientifically as fossil Lagerstätten, including the Ediacara in South Australia, the Santana and Crato formations in Brazil, and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

Sherratt, Tim, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Robin, eds. A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 216 pp. Illustrations, photos, maps, tables, notes, index. $49.95. Explores the relationship between Australia's variable climate and culture from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including the social sciences, humanities, science and engineering, imagining climate both as an influence on and the "backdrop" to the national history of the "El Niño Continent." Includes essays on human interactions with weather and climate, and their affects on the national identity, from the last Ice Age through the early twenty-first century.

Shogren, Jason A., ed. Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. ix+271 pp. Tables, notes, index. Essays by a variety of professionals including lawyers, economists, historians, and zoologists assessing the challenges and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting species at risk on private property in the United States. Examines programs since the 1973 Endangered Species Act, offering ideas for their improvement.

Silvius, Kirsten M., Richard E. Bodmer, and José M. V. Fragoso, eds. People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xiii+464 pp. Charts, tables, maps, bibliography, index. $39.50. Highlights South and Central American approaches to wildlife conservation. Documents the historical development, primarily during the twentieth century, and early twenty-first century state of Latin American conservation management strategies, which combine scientific rigor with spiritual understandings of nature.

Smout, T. C., Alan R. MacDonald, and Fiona Watson. A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500–1920. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. xiv+434 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, footnotes, bibliography, index. Explores the changing relationship between people and trees from the time of Scotland's first settlement, focusing on the period from 1500 to 1920, balancing natural science, social and economic history, and environmental factors.

Stilgoe, John R. Landscape and Images. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xiii+370 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95. Collection of essays exploring America's constructed landscapes and American perceptions of landscape through an eclectic variety of themes. Includes the author's research and observations on aesthetics, boundaries, and human impacts on landscapes over the centuries.

Trottier, Julie, and Paul Slack, eds. Managing Water Resources Past and Present: The Linacre Lectures 2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiii+185 pp. Maps, tables, references, index. $90.00. Interdisciplinary analysis of water politics and policy by a collection of international scholars, covering topics from water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the United States and Britain, the over-exploitation of African aquifers, to the water situation in Southern Africa. Underlines that only an integrative and interdisciplinary understanding can lead to improved water management practices that will not benefit some social groups at the expense of others.

Turner, Nancy J. The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 298 pp. Map, photographs, notes, references, index. $29.95. Explores traditional ecological knowledge and spiritual connection to the natural world fundamental to indigenous cultures of Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest, with whom the author, an ethnobotanist, has worked since the 1960s. Their teachings describe methods of managing and enhancing natural resources such as trees, medicinal plants, berries, root vegetables, fish, meat, and shellfish, and suggest how traditional views of the earth can contribute to the modern world.

Vaillant, John. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. xii+255 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. $24.95. Intensive look at the 1997 felling of a one-of-a-kind giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands by an ex-logger turned radical environmentalist protesting the destruction of old-growth forests. Also provides a history of the Haida Indians, to whom the tree was sacred, and a description of the physical dangers of the modern logging industry.

Vlasich, James A. Pueblo Indian Agriculture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xix+360 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Chronicles the history of New Mexico's American Indian Pueblos, tracing their agricultural development from the Spanish entrada in the sixteenth century through the twenty-first century.

Warner, Sara. Down to the Waterline: Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xiv+266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95. Using Florida as a case study, analyzes the legal, technical, and cultural issues surrounding the concept of the OHWL (Ordinary High Water Line), or the boundary separating public waters from private uplands. Traces primarily the nineteenth and twentieth-century history of the ancient concept, including the many legal battles fought over the OHWL among ranchers, outdoor enthusiasts, developers, surveyors, scientists, and policymakers.

Washington, Sylvia Hood. Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865–1954. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004. x+213 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $19.95. Investigates the history of Chicago's poor, working-class, and ethnic minority neighborhoods that have suffered disproportionate negative environmental impacts and rates of pollution-related health problems, due in part to their extremely high population density. Examines the social and political contexts for environmental racism in Chicago from the Civil War through the mid-twentieth century.

Waterman, Jonathan. Where Mountains are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. xxi+280 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Overview of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—its people, wildlife, history, and natural beauty—intended as a stand for its protection against the development of the oil industry there. Includes a biography of the pioneering conservationist couple Olaus and Mardy Murie, who first explored the region in 1914, championed a wildlife refuge in the Eisenhower era, and continued their fight up until Mardy's death in 2003.

Yearley, Steven. Cultures of Environmentalism: Empirical Studies in Environmental Sociology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. vi+205 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Uses case studies, interviews, focus groups, and observation to explore the development of and conflict resolution within the environmental movement in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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