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from the editor
| THIS ISSUE BEGINS with a wonderful essay by Peter Coates on the environmental history of sound. Though a few scholars have written about noise as an environmental issue, Coates demonstrates that the subject has many more dimensions. How has sound affected the way people perceive landscapes? What sounds have seemed "natural" at different times? How have human-made sounds affected the rest of creation? Those are only some of the fascinating questions Coates addresses. I promise that his essay will stretch your historical imagination. |
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The heart of this issue is a forum on books that ought to be better known in our field. Like the "what's next for environmental history" forum in the January 2005 issue, this special section marks the tenth year of the partnership of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society in publishing Environmental History. The section has an introduction, so you'll have to turn to page 668 to find out more! |
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Spencer Weart's "Gallery" essay is a thoughtful reflection on the challenge of imagining the effects of global warming. His essay focuses on a mural by Alexis Rothman, originally displayed at the Brooklyn Art Museum. The cover of this issue reproduces one section of Rothman's stunning work. |
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In the second "Gallery" essay, Dale Goble, Paul Hirt, and Susan Kilgore explore a series of political cartoons about wildlife conservation in the United States. When I planned the "Gallery" feature, I hoped to publish at least one essay about political cartoons, and I am especially pleased to be able to include this piece in my final issue: One of the seeds of the "Gallery" feature was a talk by Hirt and Goble on environmental cartoons at an ASEH meeting some years ago. Like that talk, this essay is both fun and provocative. |
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The book review section also has something special this issue—a number of retrospective reviews of classics in environmental and forest history.
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| BECAUSE THIS IS my last issue as editor, this is my last chance to thank the many people who help to make the journal possible. Managing Editor Eve Munson, Book Review Editor Ed Russell, and Graphics Editor Kathy Morse all have been terrific colleagues. The Forest History Society handles subscriptions, helps to control the flow of manuscripts and books, produces the Biblioscope, manages the journal's finances, and much more, and I am indebted to the fine FHS staff: Carol Marochak, Cheryl Oakes, Elizabeth Hull, Kathy Cox, and Steve Anderson. The thirty-four distinguished members of the editorial board helped me in many ways. Once again, our annual dinner at the ASEH meeting was one of the highlights of my year. |
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I also appreciate the help of the generous scholars who reviewed manuscripts for me this year. My thanks to Judy Bennett, David Barton Bray, Chris Conte, Nola Cooke, Gary Cross, Thomas Dunlap, Mark Fiege, Deborah Fitzgerald, Hugh Gorman, Catherine Gudis, Peter Mancall, Allan Mazur, Thomas McCarthy, Stuart McCook, Bernard Mergen, Char Miller, Linda Nash, Mark Neely, Sara Pritchard, Richard Rath, Christine Meisner Rosen, Edmund Russell, Myrna Santiago, Mark Smith, Paul Sutter, David Takacs, Richard Tucker, Ian Tyrrell, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Tamara Whited, J. Samuel Walker, Sydney Watts, and Douglas Weiner. |
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One of the joys of the editor's job is working with authors, and this volume was especially rich in that way. More than eighty people contributed articles or essays to the journal in 2005—the most ever. (That's not counting authors of book reviews and "Gallery" essays, who work directly with Ed and Kathy.) Most of this year's authors contributed by invitation, and I am grateful for their willingness to enrich these pages. |
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I also enjoyed working this year with editor-elect Mark Cioc. Mark is smart, imaginative, and considerate. I am delighted to be leaving the journal in his good hands! |
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ADAM ROME
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