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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://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

Allsen, Thomas T. The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. x+406 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Examines royal hunting in Eurasia—the Middle East, China, India, Egypt, and other areas—from antiquity to the nineteenth century, arguing for its political significance as an ingredient in interstate relations, militarism, domestic administration, and communication networks,.

Arnold, David. Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xiv+298 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index, bibliography. $50.00 cloth. Examines European, especially British, representation and understanding of landscape in India in the first half of the nineteenth century, drawing on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature.

Arons, Nicholas Gabriel. Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xxvii+251 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Account of how drought has impacted the culture and identity of the people of northeastern Brazil, late nineteenth through twentieth centuries.

Belleville, Bill. Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape. Florida History and Culture Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xx+199 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. $24.95 cloth. Personal account and historical investigation of development in Florida, focusing on the author's home and neighborhood west of Sanford in Seminole County. Alternates between contemporary clashes with developers who covet his property and flashbacks to the Seminoles, conquistadors, sawmills, and other aspects of the history of the Wekiva River valley.

Ben-Joseph, Eran. The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. xxi+241 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendices, notes, references, index. $24.00 paper. Examines the relationship between codes and standards of urban development and place making. Looks at the origins of urban standards and their use from early civilization to the rapid urbanization of the 19th century, through the early twenty-first century.

Biel, Alice Wondrak. Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x+186 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $15.95 paper. Traces the history of the relationship between Yellowstone National Park's bears and its human visitors, from the creation of the first staged wildlife viewing areas in the late 19th century through the 2000s.

Boomgaard, Peter, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer, eds. Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006. viii+418 pp. Illustrations, tables, references, indices. Collection of essays examining the history of human interaction with forest and marine ecosystems and natural resource management in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Topics range from the collection of rattan, beeswax and forest resins in the seventeenth century to the management of modern marine nature reserves.

Bullard, Robert D., ed. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005. xx+393 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $18.95 paper. Collection of essays on the American environmental justice movement in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, divided into three parts: Part 1 is an overview of the early movement, including the leadership of women activists; part 2 explores the lives of people in "sacrifice zones" like Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"; and part 3 discusses land use, land rights, resource extraction, and sustainable development conflicts.

Burnstein, Daniel Eli. Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x+200 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. $38.00 cloth. Examines street sanitation issues in turn-of-the-century Progressive-era New York City, from garbage strikes to "juvenile street cleaning leagues," as a means of exploring how reformers successfully formed a base of middle-class support for social reform measures. Links social reform with practical politics and urban environmental and public health issues.

Campbell, Claire. Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2005. xvii+282 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Traces the history of Canadian's reactions to an interactions with the landscape of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada from the period of contact between Aboriginal and European explorers through the 2000s.

Carlson, Paul H. Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology. Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2005. xvii+141 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Brief geologic history of the Lubbock Lake Landmark archaeological site in Texas with emphasis on human activity in the region, prehistory through the twentieth century, showing how early peoples adapted to changing environmental conditions and animal resources.

Crosby, Alfred W. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006. xv+192 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, index. $23.95 cloth. Anecdotal survey of man's complex and fundamental relationship with the sun's energy, exploring agriculture, industry, nuclear power, and possible future energy sources.

Davis, Donald E. Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press , 2006. 221 pp. Index. $25.00 paper. Collection of essays representing the author's twenty-year career as a writer, environmental activist, and scholar of the United States' Appalachian region. Essays deal with the decline of rural culture, the effects of mountaintop removal, grassroots activism and ecological philosophy, and wilderness as a social construction.

Davis, Donald E., et al. Southern United States: An Environmental History. Nature and Human Societies Series. Edited by Mark R. Stoll. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006. xxi+409 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, bibliography, index. Broad study of the complex relationship between nature and society in the United States South. Examines the positive and negative environmental effects of human activities in the region, including agriculture, colonization, the Civil War, mining, and the oil industry.

Dore, Elizabeth. Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xii+252 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Analyzes class, gender, and ethnic upheavals in rural Diriomo, near Granada, Nicaragua, from the colonial period to the twentieth century. Rethinks Nicaragua's transition to capitalism, arguing against the idea that it was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930.

Eidse, Faith, compiler and editor. Voices of the Apalachicola. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xvii+327 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Oral histories collected in the late twentieth century-2000s of people from the Apalachicola River region, one of Florida's most endangered both in terms of nature and local culture. Includes interviews with a steamboat pilot, sharecroppers, turpentine workers, sawyers, beekeepers, shrimpers, a Creek Indian chief, and others, shedding light on issues including development, environmental health, species endangerment, and overall struggles to maintain the unique character and natural environment of Northwest Florida.

Fremling, Calvin R. Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. xii+429 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Wide-ranging natural and human history of the Mississippi River, melding geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history.

Gifford, Terry. Reconnecting With John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. x+201 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth. Collection of essays explaining the author's concept of "post-pastoral practice," or the holistic, cross-disciplinary integration of reading, scholarship, teaching and writing in response to modern environmental crisis. Examines the works of John Muir (1838–1914) as an exemplar.

Gordon, David. Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xii+304 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and Congo, Africa from pre- to postcolonial times, arguing that contrary to conventional development models, traditional social networks and oral stories like "Nachituti's Gift" stayed decisive long after the rise of trade and market activities.

Guillemin, Jeanne. Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xii+258 pp. Notes, index. Account of the circumstances under which scientists, soldiers, and statesmen from countries including France, Japan, England, and the United States were able to mobilize resources for extensive biological weapons programs in the twentieth century. Aims to bring historical context to early-twenty-first-century concerns, fueled by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, about biological weapons and the potential for bioterrorism.

Haila, Yrjö, and Chuck Dyke, eds. How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition. New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century Series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. viii+334. Tables, figures, references, index. $23.95 paper. Collection exploring ways of conceiving the complexity and multiplicity of human interactions with the environment through case studies focusing on the origin of environmental movements, the politicization of environmental issues in cities, the development of local energy production, and the convergence of forest management practices on a dominant scheme.

Heasley, Lynne. A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xii+279 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Reviews changes in landscape, land tenure, and land utilization in the Kickapoo Valley of Wisconsin from the 1930s through the 1990s. Provides an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems in the region.

Henderson, Henry L., and David B. Woolner, eds. FDR and the Environment. World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. x+270 pp. Notes, index. Collection of essays concerning the impact of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency (1933–1945) on the environment of the United States, aiming to correct the widely held view that the New Deal represents a lull in the history of modern environmentalism. Argues that the New Deal in many ways helped establish the foundation for the modern environmental movement.

Hillel, Daniel. The Natural History of the Bible. New York City: Columbia University Press, 2006. xii + 354 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes index. Examines events in the Hebrew Bible to reveal the complex interplay between the ancient Israelites and their natural and cultural environments. Describes the ancient Near East's five principal ecological domains and how each gave rise to a par-ticular society with a characteristic mode of subsistence and cultural outlook.

Hughes, David McDermott. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xvii+285 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Ethnographic and historical examination of the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone, 1860s-2000s, arguing that European colonization has profoundly reshaped and continues to affect rural politics and culture.

Jackson, Philip L., and Robert Kuhlken. A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. xv+264 pp. Bibliography, index. Explores changing land use issues in the western United States, focusing on private lands planning and local growth management. Addresses the social, economic, political, and geographical realties of land use in the West in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Josephson, Paul R. Resources Under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. 269 pp. Notes, index. Explores the global relationship between science, technology, and the environment in the twentieth-century industrialized and industrializing world, focusing on the role of the state. Considers the responses of different societies to deforestation, water pollution, and global warming.

Kaye, Roger. The Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006. xix+269 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, references. Detailed twentieth-century history of the effort to establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Northeast Alaska. Includes the roles of early wilderness advocates Olaus and Margaret Murie, Aldo Leopold, and Steward Brandbourg.

Kennett, Douglas J. The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xii+298 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, references, index. Explores the evolutionary history of the Chumash people of the Northern Channel Islands of California using models derived from behavioral ecology. Provides a synthesis of the cultural and environmental history of the chain of islands, colonized as early as 13,500 years ago, showing that cultural trends were, in part, set into motion by dramatic environmental events.

Lowman, Margaret D. It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xv+291 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $27.50 cloth. Autobiographical account of the experiences of ecologist Margaret Lowman (b. 1953) and her two sons studying forest canopy ecology in Samoa, West Africa, Peru, Panama, India, and other remote places in the 1990s-2000s.

Maddox, Gregory H. Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History. Nature and Human Societies Series. Edited by Mark R. Stoll. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006. xi+355 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Broad study of the complex relationship between nature and society in Sub-Saharan Africa. Examines the positive and negative environmental effects of human activities in the region, including colonialism, urbanization, globalization, and conservationism. Considers, among other issues, the environmental factors that made the region the cradle of human life, and whether the region's animal life can be preserved while protecting the rights of its people.

Murphy, Michelle. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. x+253 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95 paper. Detailed history of sick building syndrome, or environmental illness caused by toxic hazards in office buildings, suffered primarily by women, in the 20th -early 21st century United States. Juxtaposes histories of women's health, feminism, office worker protests, architecture, toxicology, epidemiology, and corporate science, arguing that sick building syndrome provides a window into environmental politics at the turn of the 21st century.

Nielsen, John. Condor: To the Brink and Back—The Life and Times of One Giant Bird. New York: Harper Collins, Inc., 2006. x+257 pp. Illustrations, notes. Examines struggles to save the endangered condor in America, arguing that debates over the species have helped give rise to conservation biology and shaped the environmental movement as a whole. Provides historical context from the mid-nineteenth century of the effects of westward expansion on condor populations and habitat.

Pierce, Steven. Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. xii+262 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Examines issues surrounding the colonial state and the distribution of state power in northern Nigeria, Africa during the twentieth century. Offers a unique reading of land tenure, arguing that while it was the means the colonial government used to rule the local population and extract taxes from them, it was also a fundamentally flawed political logic with a Western bias.

Porter, Philip W. Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania. Geography Research Papers Series, Number 246. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi+318 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Examines farming communities in the Tanga Region, Tanzania, an area of persistent rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and economic disruption. Attempts to understand what the farmers there know about their environment and which historical and economic factors play into the lack of food security. Based on interviews with farmers.

Radding, Cynthia. Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xxiv+431 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Comparative environmental and cultural history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empire—the Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia—from the late colonial period through the mid-nineteenth century.

Ramutsindela, Maano. Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies: Experiences in Southern Africa. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004. viii+185 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $89.95 cloth. Examines the legacy of colonial thinking in creating national parks, using examples from Southern Africa in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries. Argues that national parks emerged from western views of nature that contrasted sharply with those of non-western societies.

Reinhartz, Dennis, and Gerald D. Saxon, eds. Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xx+204 pp. Illustrations, maps, index. Essay collection offering a comprehensive overview of the processes by which Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. soldier-engineers mapped the American southwestern frontier, as well as the local and geopolitical consequences of their mapping, sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.

San Miguel, Pedro L. The Imagined Island: History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. x+194 pp. Notes, index. Examines the historiography, literature, and ethnography of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), sixteenth through twentieth centuries, arguing that the national identities of its citizens are the result of imaginary contrasts between the two nations drawn by historians, intellectuals, and writers. Originally published in Puerto Rico in 1997.

Savoy, Lauret E., Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores, eds. Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2006. xvii+339 pp. Illustrations. Collection of works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that pay tribute to the earth's geological features. Includes works by contemporary writers including Leslie Marmon Silko, Annie Dillard, and Wendell Barry, historically significant writers such as Pliny the Younger, Mark Twain, Rachel Carson, and Henry David Thoreau, and international writers such as Pablo Neruda, E. M. Forster, and Hikaru Okuizumi.

Smith, Mark M., ed. Hearing History: A Reader. Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xxii+413 pp. Index. Collection of essays offering an introduction to the basic tenets of aural history, expanding examinations of sensory perception in the past beyond the visual and into sound and hearing. Includes three sections: the first on theory, the second on case studies from Europe, and the third concentrating on the United States.

Soluri, John. Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xiii+321 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95 paper. Interdisciplinary history of the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States, 1870s-late twentieth century.

Thorsheim, Peter. Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800. Series in Ecology and History. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006. xii+307 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Examines changing perceptions of and responses to coal smoke in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Identifies a radically new understanding of the negative effects of pollution that emerged in the late nineteenth century which spawned not only the smoke abatement movement but new ways of thinking about the relationships between humans, technology, and the environment.

Warren, James Perrin. John Burroughs and the Place of Nature. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xiii+266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Situates nineteenth-century American nature writer Burroughs (1837–1921), along with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who defined and assured a place for nature in mainstream culture in the years between the Civil War and World War I.

Washington, Sylvia Hood, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall, eds. Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xxiii+433 pp. Maps, notes, index. $29.95 paper. Collection of essays examining struggles for environmental justice around the globe from the "bottom up" perspective of environmentally marginalized communities. Links insights from African American environmental justice campaigns with perspectives of Native Americans and global groups like indigenous Australians, New Zealanders, Africans, and Europeans.

Weller, Robert P. Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. vii+189 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $27.99 paper. Examines the transformations that have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment through the course of the twentieth century. Focuses on nature tourism, anti-pollution movements, and policy implementation to show how Western ideas have interacted with Chinese traditions to allow for a new concept of nature.

White, Matt. Prairie Time: A Blackland Portrait. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. x+251 pp. Map, illustrations. $19.95 cloth. History of and meditations on the Blackland Prairie in northeast Texas, eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, including tales of both destruction and stewardship of this vanishing landscape.

Wolch, Jennifer, Manuel Pastor Jr., and Peter Dreier, eds. Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. xi+401 pp. Maps, tables, figures, index. Collection of essays detailing how 20th-century government policy and public agencies have determined many aspects of the growth of the area in and around Los Angeles, California, and hypothesizing how they can help manage issues of urban sprawl and environmental justice in the future.

Wyckoff, William. On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xvii+180 pp. Illustrations, bibliographic essay, index. $26.95 paper. Examines landscape change in Montana by comparing historical photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s-1930s with repeat photographs taken by the author in 2001–2003.

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