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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

Atwater, Brian F., et al. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. Reston, Virginia and Seattle: United States Geological Survey in association with University of Washington Press, 2005. vii+133 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, references, index. $24.95 paper. Uses Japanese documents and geological evidence from the Pacific Northwest Coast to trace the origins of the tsunami of 1700 that ravaged Japan's coast. Designed to help guide preparations for future earthquakes and tsunamis.

Bezis-Selfa, John. Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi+279 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Examines eighteenth-century ironmaking in eastern British North America, focusing on the relationship between ironmakers and labor (slaves, indentured servants, and free white workers) in the iron industry.

Black, George. The Trout Pool Paradox: the American Lives of Three Rivers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. viii+327 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes. History of three northwestern Connecticut watersheds (Housatonic, Shepaug, and Naugatuck Rivers) from a trout angler's point of view. Describes the geologic history as well as man's interventions that led to early twenty-first century conditions in these particular watersheds.

Buckley, Karen. Danger, Death and Disaster in the Crowsnest Pass Mines, 1902–1928. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. xxvi+189 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Explores the effects of mining disasters, accidents, and frequent miner deaths on the community of Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta, Canada, 1902–1928. Draws from a variety of sources including archives, mining songs, oral histories, grave markers, and modern psychological and sociological studies.

Buhs, Joshua Blu. The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. x+216 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Account of the battle against imported South American fire ants from their introduction in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1910s through the 2000s, by which time they were distributed throughout the Sun Belt. Includes intellectual, political, scientific, and cultural history.

Coates, Ken S., and William R. Morrison. Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon. 2nd. ed. Montreal and Seattle: McGill-Queen's University Press; University of Washington Press, 2005. xiv+362 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Places the best-known historical episodes in the history of the Yukon Territory, including the 1896–1900 Klondike Gold Rush, World Wars I and II, and the 2002 revision to the Yukon Act, in the broader sweep of the past, emphasizing the role of First Nations people and the struggle of Yukoners to find their place within the Canadian Confederation. New edition is fully revised and brought up to the 2000s.

Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. xii + 312 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Examines conflicting depictions of glaciers located in northwestern North America, reflecting European and Aboriginal viewpoints. Traces divergent views across three centuries, examining their role in modern debates about protected areas, particularly the World Heritage site that includes the area where British Columbia, the Yukon Territory, and Alaska meet.

Dunmire, William W. Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xvii+375 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index, bibliography. Examines the diffusion of plants, gardens, agriculture, and foods from late medieval Spain—many of which had been adopted from the Fertile Crescent, Asia, and Africa—to colonial settlements in Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Sally K., et al. Buying Nature: The Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy, 1780–2004. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2005. xx+357 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Analyzes the evolution of public and private land acquisition as a conservation strategy in the United States since the late 1700s. Contains numerous case studies and quantitative analyses of acquisitions that address questions of public policy and environmental protection.

Feldman, Jay. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes. New York: Free Press, 2005. viii + 307 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Examines how the December 16, 1811 series of earthquakes in the frontier town of New Madrid, Missouri affected the lives of inhabitants as well as the politics and landscape of the region.

Fraser, George C. Journeys in the Canyon Lands of Utah and Arizona, 1914–1916. Swanson, Frederick H., ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xxxviii+224 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Documents the three journeys George C. Fraser and his son, George Jr., made to the wilderness of southern Utah and northern Arizona in the 1910s. Fraser's is considered an unvarnished account because he wrote without the intention of publishing his journal, which includes details from weather to geology and scenery.

Garden, Don. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History. Edited by Mark R. Stoll. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. xvii+398 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographic essay, index. Broad study of the complex relationship between the environment and the peoples of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific throughout history. Explores how these exotic, often forbidding environments evolved and the effects of human civilization and colonialism on the ecological stability and diversity of the region. Part of the ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies Series.

Gillio, David, ed. Amigos Remember. Albuquerque: Southwest Forest Service Amigos, 2005. iii+95 pp. Compilation of stories from the Southwest Forest Service Amigos, an organization begun in 1968 of USDA Forest Service employees who have retired or completed at least 20 years of service. Members reminisce about their early days in the Forest Service, fellow employees, forest fires, and other memorable events in their careers, 1900s–2000s.

Glave, Dianne D., and Mark Stoll, eds. 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xiii+271 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, index. Collection of essays analyzing the historical relationship between African Americans and the environment in the United States, covering three major themes: the rural environment, urban and suburban environments, and environmental justice.

Heyd, Thomas, ed. Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature: Theory and Practice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x+230 pp. Index, notes. $45.00 cloth. Collection of essays exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the autonomy of nature, a crucial aspect of environmental philosophy and policy. Focuses on the recognition and meaning of nature's autonomy, linking issues of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and policy.

Kirsch, Scott. Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xi+257 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. $39.95 cloth. Examines the rise and fall of Project Plowshare, which investigated possible non-military uses for nuclear explosives in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s. Discusses nuclear earthmoving or "geographical engineering," including the public controversy, political opposition, and scientific uncertainty that surrounded this thwarted practice.

Laird, Helen L. A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888–1982. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xvii+508 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Biography of Helen Connor Laird (1888–1982), daughter of William Duncan Connor, a major figure in Wisconsin's early hardwood lumber industry and in the state's turn-of-the-century political scene. Explores Helen Laird's personal life as a member of one of Wisconsin's most influential families, as well as her public leadership roles in business, politics, and education.

Lee, Robert G., and Donald R. Field, eds. Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. x+310 pp. Tables, figures, index. $29.95 paper. Collection of essays examining changes in forestry and the social meanings of forests in North America, focusing on the integration of communities into decision-making and the ongoing transition away from science-based forestry, twentieth through early twenty-first centuries.

Lekan, Thomas, and Thomas Zeller, eds. Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. vii+266 pp. Notes, index. $54.95 cloth. Collection of essays by historians, geographers, and social scientists that explore the cultural patterns, social institutions, and geographic patterns that have shaped and sustained Germany's relationship to its land in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Demonstrates how environmental debates in Germany have generally centered on the best ways to harmonize human interests with the natural order.

Lewis, James G. The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History. Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 2005. xvi+286 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendices, index. $29.95. Comprehensive, illustrated history of the first one hundred years of the U.S. Forest Service, covering the agency's stewardship of watersheds, timber, wildlife, and recreation; the development of fire management policy; political controversies; the rise of the environmental movement; and recent debates over the viability of ecosystem management approaches. Companion book to the documentary film The Greatest Good, produced on the occasion of the Forest Service centennial in 2005.

Maclean, Murray. Farming and Forestry on the Western Front, 1915–1919. Ipswich: Old Pond Publishing, 2004. 144 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, bibliography. Account of the farming and forestry activities of the British army in France during World War I, heavily illustrated with photographs from the Imperial War Museum (IWM).

McGoldrick, Jim. The McGoldrick Lumber Company Story, 1900–1952. Spokane, Washington: Tornado Creek Publications, 2004. 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, indices. History of the McGoldrick Lumber Company, from its founding by the author's grandfather, James Patrick McGoldrick, in Minneapolis in 1900, its relocation to Spokane, Washington in 1905, where it became the city's major employer and largest industry, to the company's ultimate demise in 1945. Contains reproductions of many original documents, including articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence, concerning the McGoldrick family and business operations. Book based on author's 2002 report to the Timber Initiative Committee of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

Mochoruk, Jim. Formidable Heritage: Manitoba's North and the Cost of Development, 1870 to 1930. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2004. xvi+496 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index, bibliography. Explores the convergence of government and business in transforming northern Manitoba, Canada from the exclusive fur-trading reserve of the Hudson's Bay Company as of the late nineteenth century to an industrial hinterland by 1930.

Nelson, Arvid. Cold War Ecology: Forests, Farms, and People in the East German Landscape, 1945–1989. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xxi+315 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth. Explores how East German leaders' indifference to human rights and the natural landscape in the twentieth century affected the rural economy, forests, and population. Suggests integral links between ecosystem health and political health, arguing that signs foretelling the country's political collapse in the late 1980s were apparent in the landscape long before it occurred.

Pickering, James H. America's Switzerland: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xii+457 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index, bibliography. History of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, exploring how the evolution of tourism and America's fascination with the "western experience" shaped the park and town from 1903 to 1945.

Robinson, Michael. Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xviii+473 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Explores the political, social, and biological saga of wolves in the American West, in particular the federal government's policies of exterminating wolves to appease the livestock industry during the early twentieth century. Includes discussions the lives of western wolves, the passage of the 1973 Endangered Species Act and ensuing species reintroductions.

Roy, Wendy. Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xiv + 287 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Examines gender, race, and culture in the travel writing of Canadians Anna Jameson in 1838, Mina Hubbard in 1908, and Margaret Laurence in 1963. Explores how these women were attuned to the cultural imperialism underlying their writing, and questions the implied objectivity of travel narratives.

Safford, Jeffrey J. The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864–1868. Boulder: University Press of Colorado , 2004. xvi+185 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the quick rise and decline of the Hot Spring Mining District in southwestern Montana, 1864–1868. Explores how gold mining ventures were developed and financed during and after the Civil War, arguing that common short-lived and unprofitable mining camps offer the best insight into western mining.

Sandwell, R. W. Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859–1891. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xxii+324 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Describes how the early settlers of Saltspring Island in British Columbia created and sustained a distinctive society, culture and economy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Illustrates how the emerging and diverse culture differed from both urban society and contemporary ideals of rural society.

Simo, Melanie L. Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xv+271 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Explores the historiography of place and the relationship of place to daily life, considering selected American stories, novels, memoirs, essays, travel writing, nature writing, and other sources from 1890 to 1970. Traces common threads of attachment to place in works by John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Rachel Carson, Wendell Berry, and others.

Sivasundaram, Sujit. Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi+244 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $80.00 cloth. Account of the relationship between nineteenth-century science and Christianity outside the Western world, focusing on the London Missionary Society, 1790–1850, whose members surveyed the oceans and islands of the Pacific and instructed converts in the Christian observation of nature. Argues that this knowledge functioned as a "popular science" that was connected to religious expansion.

Snyder, Noel F. R. The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xii+153 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Examines the history and decline of the Carolina parakeet, primarily in the United States. Includes Sir Walter Raleigh's sightings of the species in the late sixteenth century, human impacts on the population from hunting and use of feathers in women's hats, and its eventual extinction in the 1930s.

Speark, Robert J. The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890–1901. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. xv + 308 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Documents the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America and the unsuccessful war to eradicate the insect.

Swyngedouw, Erik. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii+209 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Historical development of water resources in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador from its 16th-century founding through the 2000s, demonstrating the links between politics and economics in resource access and extending political-ecological interpretations of the power-nature nexus to the urban landscape.

Wadley, Reed L., ed. Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. vi+315 pp. Maps, references, glossary, index. Collection of essays examining change and continuity in the Borneo environment from native, colonial and national perspectives. Covers eleven centuries of history on topics including long-distance trade, conservation, resource access, perceptions of the environment, migration, and development policy.

Walker, Brett L. The Lost Wolves of Japan. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 360 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $35.00. Study of the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan from early modern times.

Webb, Robert H., Jayne Belnap, and John S. Weisheit. Cataract Canyon: A Human and Environmental History of the Rivers in Canyonlands. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. xii+268 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, appendices, index. Natural, human, and environmental history of Cataract Canyon and the Green and Colorado Rivers in the southern Utah canyonlands, from prehistory onward. Makes extensive use of repeat photography, comparing late nineteenth-early twentieth century historic images with late-twentieth century views of the same areas/features.

Whited, Tamara L., et al. Northern Europe : An Environmental History. Edited by Mark R. Stoll. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. xvii+275 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliographic essay, index. Broad study of the complex relationship between the environment and the peoples of Northern Europe. Examines the positive and negative environmental effects of human activities in the region, including industrialization, agriculture, forestry, mining, tourism, and oil and gas exploration. Part of the ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies Series.

Wickman, Boyd E. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, Pioneers in Western Forest Entomology. Portland, Or.: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2005. iv+163 pp. Illustrations, references, appendix, index. History compiled from memoirs and other personal documents tracing the lives and work, 1902–1952, of the two forest entomologists in charge of the first forest insect laboratories on the U.S. west coast.

Zimring, Carl A. Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xi+220 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth. History of scrap recycling in America from colonial times through the early twenty-first century. Considers environmental and economic developments as well as social forces and inequalities that have shaped and continue to effect recycling.

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