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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 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

Aiken, Katherine G. Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885–1981. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xix + 284 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Traces the rise and fall, 1885–1981, of the Bunker Hill Company in Kellogg, Idaho, one of the leading mining and smelting corporations in the United States, and today one of the EPA's largest Superfund sites. Examines labor strife and environmental destruction largely from the perspective of Silver Valley's inhabitants and workers, and illustrates the company's role in American industrial development.

Baker, J. Mark. The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2005. xiii+271 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, notes, references, index. Explores the history of the use of kuhls, or networks of collectively-built and managed irrigation channels, in the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, offering an explanatory framework for the centuries-long durability of the kuhls in the face of environmental and socioeconomic change.

Barker, Rocky. Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America. Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2005. 277 pp. Map, notes, index. $24.95 cloth. History of forest fires and fire management in Yellowstone National Park from shortly after the Civil War through the 2000s, addressing modern debates over public lands and human attempts to control nature. Examines the influential roles of players including General Philip Sheridan and his soldiers, explorer John Wesley Powell, and conservationists like Aldo Leopold, as well as investors, railroad men, naturalists, and firefighters.

Barlett, Peggy F., ed. Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 2005. viii+330 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.00. Interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how urban dwellers in the United States have found ways to reconnect with the natural world through community gardens, greenspace preservation, organic markets, and other methods in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Bieder, Robert E. Bear. London: Reaktion Books Ltd.; Dist. by University of Chicago Press, 2005. 192 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95. Examine legends, myths, stories, and imagery surrounding the bear, as well as the impact of human behavior on bears and their environments, throughout world history. Looks at the role of bears in modern culture, and considers the species' future, threatened by loss of habitat, poaching, global warming, and disease.

Bolgiano, Chris Roberts Jerry, ed. The Eastern Cougar: Historic Accounts, Scientific Investigations, And New Evidence. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005. viii+246 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95. Examines the controversy over whether wild cougars still populate eastern North America, compiling accounts from 15th-century explorers and present-day researchers alike, evaluating evidence of reappearance, and exploring the social and environmental implications of species management and recovery.

Bonhomme, Brian. Forests, Peasants, and Revolutionaries: Forest Conservation and Organization in Soviet Russia, 1917–1929. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 252 pp. Footnotes, tables, selected bibliography. Overview of the emergence of forest conservation in Russia, 1917–1929, asserting that early Soviet forest conservation and management drew heavily on pre-Revolutionary models, the value of which has been overlooked; that it fell far short of its original goals; and that advances in forest management after the revolution were stifled by peasant resistance.

Brosius, J. Peter, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Charles Zerner, eds. Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005. ix+489 pp. Maps, tables, index. $39.95 paper. Environmentalists analyze and advocate for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, offering an overview of the emergence of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. Essays are organized into two sections: one concerning mobilizations and models, and one on mapping and law in CBNRM.

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 64 pp. Illustrations. $14.95. Children's book based on storytelling traditions of Montana's Salish people, designed to teach respect for fire and awareness of its significance.

Crump, Marty. Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x+199 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $25.00 cloth. Stories and anecdotes of animal lore, interweaving natural history, evolutionary and behavioral biology, poetry, mythology, folklore, and humor.

Daniel, Pete. Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South. Baton Rouge: University of Louisiana Press with the Smithsonian Museum of American History, 2005. xii+209 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 cloth. Documents the disastrous effects on the public health and environment of the southern U.S. of the post-World War II campaign by chemical companies, agribusiness, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to promote the use of synthetic chemicals such as DDT as pesticides. Provides an account of the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.

Doolittle, Amity A. Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia: Native Struggles over Land Rights. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 232 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. Examines 1990 event in which the local inhabitants of Sabah, Malaysia allegedly burned Kinabalu Park to the ground shortly after a politician announced that its boundaries were to be expanded. Author analyzes local people's motivations and other contemporary land-use issues by examining historical resource use and customary rights in Sabah, 1881–1996. Interdisciplinary look at how control over and access to resources have been defined and negotiated by Malaysians.

Driver, Felix, and Luciana Martins, eds. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 279 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. $25.00. Examines images of the tropical world produced by European travelers over the past three centuries. Contains eleven interdisciplinary essays, arranged in three sections devoted to voyages, mappings, and sites, that consider the ways tropical places were encountered, experienced, and represented in visual form.

Dunaway, Finis. Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiv+246 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $37.00 cloth. Examines the reliance of the American environmental movement on photographic images, from the early-twentieth-century Progressive era through the first Earth Day in 1970. Explores the work of Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Herbert Gleason, and other artists.

Fraser, Lauchlan H., and Paul A. Keddy, eds. The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix+488 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, references, index. $130.00 cloth. Essays by international scholars explore the history of human interactions with, as well as the decline, current status, ecological dynamics, functions, and conservation needs of the world's largest wetland areas. Includes overviews of the Amazon and Congo River basins, the Hudson Bay Lowland, the "prairie potholes" of North America, South America's Pantanal, and other areas.

Geller, Peter G. Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920–45. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xviii + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Explores early twentieth century film practice and photographs of three colonial institutions: the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson's Bay Company in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic areas of Canada. Describes how such images extended control over the northern regions of Canada.

Gillio, David. Flagging the Trail: One Hundred Years of Managing Cultural Resources. Albuquerque: USDA Forest Service—Southwestern Region, 2005. vii+187 pp. Illustrations, tables, references, appendices. History of heritage resources management in the USDA Forest Services Southwestern Region (Region 3), 1970–2000.

Goin, Peter, and Paul F. Starrs. Black Rock. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xv+277 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, index. Historical, geographic, and photographic exploration of Nevada's Black Rock country, including the roles of water, wind, geothermal action, and humans—from ancient Native Americans to nineteenth-century explorers, ranchers, and miners, through the congregants at Burning Man festivals in the early 2000s—in shaping the region's landscape.

Gould, Rebecca Kneale. At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxx + 350 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the practice of homesteading from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries, through personal interviews and historical materials. Author traces the lives and beliefs of those who have made homesteading their livelihood and places their experiences in the context of nature and religion in modern American culture.

Hall, Marcus. Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xiv + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Examines questions of which environmental systems need restoring, and to what states they should be restored. Drawing from the work of pioneer conservationist George Perkins Marsh, shows that restoration has taken many forms over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from maintenance to gardening and naturalization. Contrasting land management in the United States, Italy and elsewhere, clarifies meanings of restoration, shows how such meanings have changed, and suggests how modern restorationists can apply these insights to their practices.

Harvey, Mark. Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xviii + 325 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth. Examines the life of Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), a prominent figure in the American wilderness preservation movement whose career culminated, and ended, with the passage of the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964.

Isenberg, Andrew C. Mining California: An Ecological History. New York: Hill &; Wang, 2005. 242 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Provides an overview of the industrialization of mining, logging, ranching and agriculture in California between 1850 and 1900. Examines how technological innovations associated with gold mining caused profound environmental changes that altered the course of industrialization and politics in the state.

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. xxxiii+219 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Examines the vast array of signs that have evolved in America since the beginning of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on how their use changed with the coming of the automobile. Explores sign aesthetics, positive and negative American responses to signs in the landscape, and how reading and displaying signs can contribute to sense of community and of self.

Jones, William P. The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xv+235 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $20.00 paper. Examines the often-overlooked African Americans who formed the majority of the workforce in the southern lumber industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their impact on the economic, social, and industrial history of the region. Draws on oral history interviews and other sources to explore the changing relationship of black men and women to industrial work in three sawmill communities: Elizabethtown, South Carolina; Chapman, Alabama; and Bogalusa, Louisiana.

Juuti, Petri S., and Katri J. Wallenius. Brief History of Wells and Toilets. Tampere, Finland: KehräMedia Inc., 2005. 159 pp. Illustrations, tables, references. Long-term development of water and waste services in Finland, from ancient times. Available on the Web at http://tampub.uta.fi/index.php?Aihealue_Id=20.

Juuti, Petri S., and Tapio S. Katko, eds. Water, Time and European Cities: History Matters for the Futures. Tampere, Finland: WaterTime, 2005. 253 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, references. Chronological accounts of the evolution of water and sanitation services in various cities throughout Europe since ancient times. Available on the Web at http://www.watertime.net.

Langton, John, and Graham Jones, eds. Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500-c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. xviii+118 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. Results of an April 2005 forum at St. John's College of the same title. Includes revised versions of papers presented at the forum by scholars including historians, ecologists, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental managers; summaries of two presentations of electronic mapping; and edited extracts from the concluding roundtable discussion.

Mattson, David J., and Charles van Riper, III, eds. The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 448 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Examines the integration of science into various resource management issues on the Colorado Plateau, including the human-wildland interface, the introduction of economic perspectives to explain the plateau economy, and biophysical resources and the management of forest restoration.

Marzluff, John M., and Tony Angell. In the Company of Crows and Ravens. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xix+384 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Examines the interaction between crows and humans throughout history, contending that they reflect a process of "cultural coevolution" wherein both groups effect the experience of the other. Examines crow ecology; representations of crows in language, culture, literature, and art; and stories of human-crow encounters, among other topics.

McCloskey, Michael. In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005. xv+399 pp. Index, notes. Author's account of his career as one of the architects of the modern environmental movement (primarily as Sierra Club executive director and then chairman, 1969–1999), the rise of one of the world's most influential and controversial environmental organizations, and the wider development of twentieth-century activism.

McCord, Susan, and Robert Kellison, eds. New Century, New Trees: Biotechnology as a Tool for Forestry in America. Raleigh, NC: Institute of Forest Biotechnology, 2005. 116 pp. Illustrations, references, tables, figures. Published proceedings of conference offered on November 16–17, 2004 in Research Triangle Park, NC focused on the history, current status, and future opportunities for application and use of forest biotechnology in North America.

Miller, Sally M., and Daryl Morrison, eds. John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xii+281 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95 cloth. Collection of essays written by participants in the 2001 John Muir Institute, held annually at the University of the Pacific. Essays explore new aspects of Muir's life such as his personal and professional relationships, including with landscape painter William Keith and forester Gifford Pinchot, and his travels to Africa and South America.

Minchin, Timothy J. Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. xiv + 232 pp. Bibliography, index. Describes the experience of southern worker s from World War II to the 2000s through numerous interviews and primary sources. Examines topical issues such as Latino migrants to the South, the decline of the textile industry, and a 1991 fire at a chicken-processing plant in North Carolina that killed twenty-five workers.

Moehring, Eugene P. Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004. xxx+408 pp. Maps, appendix, notes, index. Analysis of urbanism in the development of the American West during the frontier era (mid-to-late nineteenth century), exploring how Americans used cities and towns to build a Western empire. Incorporates such themes as the roles of railroads, boosterism, interactions with Native Americans, water resources, and the role of cultural and racial superiority assumptions in creating the American urban framework.

Padget, Martin. Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1935. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xiv + 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Examines European writings and illustrations about various individuals' encounters with the environment and its inhabitants while traveling throughout the American Southwest from 1840–1940. Includes accounts from John Wesley Powell, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Eldridge Ayer Burbank.

Phillips, F. Dwain, and Mark S. Harrison. Out of the Dust: The History of Conservation in Oklahoma in the Twentieth Century. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts, 2004. vi+108 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $19.95 paper. Historical overview of Oklahoma's leadership role in twentieth-century conservation efforts and programs.

Poet, John Robert, Jr. Fifteen Years at Imnaha Guard Station. Springfield, Ore.: JB Poet; printed by XLibris, 2005. 73 pp. Illustrations. $16.99 paper. Author's recollections of his service, 1970–1985, as a Fire Prevention Guard during summers at the Imnaha Forest Service Guard Station on the Rogue River National Forest in southern Oregon.

Pope, Peter E. Fish Into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xxvi+463 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Combines archaeological analysis with historical research to examine life in seventeenth-century Newfoundland settlements based around cod fisheries. Placing the fisheries in the context of transatlantic trade, devotes special attention to Ferryland, the proprietary colony founded by Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, in 1621, later taken over by the London merchant Sir David Kirke.

Prevedel, David A., and Curtis M. Johnson. Beginnings of Range Management: Albert F. Potter, First Chief of Grazing, U.S. Forest Service, and a Photographic Comparison of his 1902 Forest Reserve Survey in Utah with Conditions 100 Years Later. Ogden, Utah: USDA Forest Service Intermountain Region, 2005. 94 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Origins of range management in the U.S. Forest Service in the American West, especially the role of Albert F. Potter and his 1902 survey of potential Forest Reserves in Utah. Includes maps of and photos from Potter's expedition along with the same areas re-photographed in the 1990s and 2000s for comparison.

Robertson, Lindsay Gordon. Conquest By Law: How The Discovery Of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples Of Their Lands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 272 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Analysis based on rediscovered historical records of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Johnson v. M'Intosh, handed down in 1823 by Chief Justice John Marshall, which established the "discovery doctrine." This doctrine effectively gave rights of ownership to Europeans who "discovered" the land and converted the indigenous owners into tenants, leading to the practice of "Indian removal," whereby entire tribes were forced to move west.

Senecah, Susan L., ed. The Environmental Communication Yearbook, Volume 2. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. x+173 pp. Index. Interdisciplinary annual publication addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. Areas of coverage include participatory processes, journalism and mass communication, and communication studies.

Simpson, Lee M. A. Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880–1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ix + 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Describes how property-owning middle-class women in California achieved entry into the male-dominated sphere of urban planning from 1880–1940. Examines the roles both genders played in shaping a regional identity based on the promotion of urban growth.

Strohmaier, David J. Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xxii+177 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Examination of wildfire from the perspective of a firefighter, exploring loss (of life, property, livelihoods, and beloved places) and renewal (of soil and animal species) as a result of fire. Focuses on the active 1994 fire season in the western United States.

VanDevelder, Paul. Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. vii+321 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, notes, index. $19.95. Traces the century-long struggle of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes to protect their North Dakota homelands through the perspective of Raymond Cross (1948- ), one of the Ivy-League trained Native American lawyers known as "Coyote Warriors." Describes the 1986 Supreme Court trial vs. Wold Engineering that awarded reparations for those tribes for "the unlawful taking" of their homelands.

Vaughn, Jacqueline, and Hanna J. Cortner. George W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xii+231 pp. Notes, index. $24.95 paper. Examines environmental policy under the George W. Bush administration, especially the context and legal effects of the 2003 Healthy Forests Initiative and Healthy Forests Restoration Act, and the strategic joining of administrative appeals and wildfires in the forest health issue. Argues that policies put in place have restricted public and scientific involvement in environmental decisions, limited opportunities for analysis, administrative appeals, and litigation, and generally changed the terms of the environmental debate in America.

Weightman, Gavin. London's Thames: The River That Shaped a City and Its History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. x+150 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $23.95 cloth. History of integral relationship between the city of London and its central waterway, the Thames River. Explores such topics as urban development, fisheries, drinking water resources, pollution, fortification and defense, and cultural views of the river.

Wright, Angus. The Death of Ramón González: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma. Revised. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xvii+400 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $19.95. Study of pesticide use in the Mexican export vegetable industry and its damaging effects on migrant workers, local inhabitants, and the environment in the late twentieth century, drawing on field observations, personal interviews, and scholarly reports. Originally published in 1990, revised edition includes a new afterword updating the science and politics of pesticides and agricultural development.

Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle, and Donald Theodore Sanders. Earthquakes in Human History: the Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Examines the repercussions of natural disasters, primarily earthquakes, throughout human history as visible in literature, religion, politics, and science. Illustrates how interpretations of earthquakes changed through time.

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