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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

Apsey, Mike. What's All This Got to Do with the Price of 2x4's? As told to Ken Drushka and Matt Hughes. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2006. xi+289 pp. Illustrations. Memoir of forester Mike Apsey, Deputy Minister of Forests in British Columbia, Canada, 1978–1984, President and CEO of the Council of Forest Industries, 1994–1998. Provides background on competing interests and values in forest policy, and offers recommendations for forest governance.

Ashworth, William. Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. x+330 pp. Map, bibliography, index. $26.95 cloth. Natural and social history of the Ogallala aquifer, a store of underground water reserves extending from South Dakota to Texas and from Colorado to Iowa. Focuses on efforts to exploit the reserves, from wells of long-vanished tribes to the twentieth-century development of sophisticated extraction and irrigation technologies.

Banner, Stuart. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 344 pp. Illustrations, notes, acknowledgements, index. $29.95 cloth. Comprehensive analysis of how nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites between the early seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Argues that time, place, balance of power, and ability to shape legal frameworks of land ownership determined the outcomes of land struggles.

Barber, Katrine. Death of Celilo Falls. Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington Press, 2005. xi+258 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50 paper. Examines the economic, environmental, and cultural effects of the 1957 construction of the Dalles Dam at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, Oregon. Explores impacts on both the Indian community of Celilo Village and the non-Indian town of The Dalles.

Beers, Diane L. For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2006. xvi+312 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. History of the animal protection/advocacy movement in the United States, early nineteenth century-2000s.

Berry, Trey, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements, eds. The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xxxvi+248 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Journals of William Dunbar and George Hunter's explorations through the southern unmapped regions of the Louisiana Purchase from October 1804 to January 1806, including their descriptions of flora and fauna, geology, weather, landscapes, native peoples, and the "hot springs" of the Ouachita River.

Blackbourn, David. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006. xii+466 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Account of the development of German nationhood in conjunction with its governments' and peoples' transformations of landscape and attempts to harness the power of water through reclamation, exploration, river engineering, dam-building, and other methods; mid-eighteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Blackstock, Alan, ed. A Green River Reader. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005. vii+263 pp. Illustrations, maps. $17.95 paper. Collection of writings about Wyoming and Utah's Green River, by travelers, naturalists, and others, nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Boone, Christopher G., and Ali Modarres. City and Environment. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. xv+221 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, references, index. $24.95 cloth. Examines the global evolution of cities and the history of urbanization from Mesopotamia through the 2000s. Seeks to understand the complex interaction between cities and natural ecosystems as well as the interplay of social, cultural, economic, and political factors in their development.

Cederlöf, Gunnel, and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds. Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. xiii+399 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. Essays exploring how national identity has become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India, considering the motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or managing nature. Covers topics including forests, agriculture, marine fisheries, property rights, and economic development.

Chasek, Pamela S., David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown. Global Environmental Politics. Fourth Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2006. xviii+350 pp. Illustrations, figures, references, notes, chronology, suggested readings, internet resources, glossary, index. $27.95 cloth. Survey of international environmental political issues, contextualizing key topics like the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Kyoto Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and international forest policy.

Clatterback, Wayne K., et al. Natural History and Land Use History of Cumberland Plateau Forests in Tennessee. Research Triangle Park, NC: National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc., 2006. 37 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography. Special Report No. 06–01. Reviews natural history and effects of human activity on the forests of Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau, pre- and post-European settlement. Includes intensive analysis of USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) from 1950–1999. Text in English and French.

Dupuy, Michel. L'essor de l'écologie forestière moderne: contributions des scientifiques Européens, 1880–1980. Paris: French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, 2005. xv+351 pp. Tables, bibliography. "The Rise of Modern Forest Ecology: Contributions of European Scientists, 1880–1980." Numerous individual biographies of European forest scientists, late nineteenth-twentieth centuries. Text in French.

Engerman, Stanley L., and Jacob Metzer, eds. Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. xii+403 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, index. Studies exploring the relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty, illuminating the various causes of land disputes around the world. Primarily eighteenth-twentieth centuries.

Evans, Sterling, ed. The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxvi+386 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, index. $49.95 cloth. Interdisciplinary collection of essays concerning life in the transboundary region of the American and Canadian Wests, including investigations of the region's environment and natural resources, aboriginal and gender history, frontier interactions, agriculture, labor, and tourism, e century-2000s.

Fradkin, Philip L. The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. xvii+418 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $15.95 paper. Account and analysis of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires and the city's subsequent reconstruction. Argues that humans, rather than nature, nearly destroyed the city through ineptitude and power politics.

Gebissa, Ezekiel. Leaf of Allah: Khat & Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875–1991. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiv+210 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $44.95 hardback. Social and economic history of khat (qat, kat or chat), a plant widely used as a mild psychoactive stimulant in the Horn of Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula. Focuses on the transformation of the Harerge region of Ethiopia, 1875–1991, from an area devoted primarily to coffee production to one centered on khat.

Hull, R. Bruce. Infinite Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii+258 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00 cloth. Evaluates the modern environmentalist movement by examining wide-ranging and historical perspectives on the meaning of nature and man's relationship to the environment. Argues for a pragmatic and unifying approach towards conservation, with a focus on the United States.

Huser, Verne, ed. River Reflections: A Collection of River Writings. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xiii+273 pp. Compiles writings of explorers, pioneers, naturalists, historians, river runners, seventeenth-twentieth centuries. Divided into sections, the first offers "classics," including Lewis and Clark Expedition journals and works by Washington Irving, and Mark Twain, part 2 includes authors such as Tom Brokaw and Wendell Berry.

Izlar, Bob. The Centennial History of Forestry in Georgia: A Pictorial Journey. Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, 2006. 160 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth. Illustrated history of forestry in Georgia in the twentieth century, focusing on the influence of the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Georgia Forestry Association, Inc., on the occasion of the centennial anniversaries of both organizations.

Joslin, Les. The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness: Deschutes and Willamette National Forests, Oregon. Revised Edition. Bend, OR: Wilderness Associates, 2005. viii+166 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cultural and natural history, philosophical, legal, and management concepts of the Three Sisters Wilderness in the Deschutes and Willamette National Forests, Oregon. Includes historical background on the conservation and wilderness movements, late nineteenth through twentieth centuries.

Kessel, Anthony. Air, the Environment and Public Health. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv+243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $90.00 cloth. Traces the theme of air pollution and health from ancient civilizations to the present day, exploring historical developments and critically examining current problems in public health theory and practice.

Liebersohn, Harry. The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiii+380pp. Maps, illustrations, chronology, notes, selected bibliography, index. Examines the transformation of global knowledge during the age of scientific exploration (late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries). Includes accounts of British, French, German, Russian, and American explorers and the Tahitian, Hawaiian, and other Pacific islanders they encountered.

Logan, William Bryant. Oak: The Frame of Civilization. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. 336 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Anecdotal history of the relationship between humans and oak trees, from the earliest civilizations.

Loo, Tina. States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. Nature/History/Society Series. Vancouver and Seattle: University of British Columbia Press, University of Washington Press, 2006. xxiv+280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. Traces the development of wildlife conservation in twentieth-century Canada, noting the influence of well-known conservationists as well as the bottom-up impact of rural and everyday people on the evolution of Canadian wildlife management.

Maher, Neil M., ed. New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. vi+212 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, index. $21.95 paper. Collection of essays on New Jersey's environmental past, present, and future, nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, dealing with topics like solid waste and wildlife management and urban sprawl. Has sections on "History and Contexts," "Policy and Law," and "New Jersey Environments Today."

Makley, Michael J. The Infamous King of Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xii+291 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Biography of William Sharon (1821–1885), "one of Nevada's most reviled historical figures," a successful but corrupt capitalist who controlled many of the largest mines on the Comstock Lode. Places Sharon's life within larger economic, technological, and political contexts of the nineteenth-century American West.

Matthews, Mark. Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors during World War II. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xvii + 316 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Documents the experiences of American conscientious objectors in WWII who volunteered as smoke jumpers in Montana and other western states as part of the Civilian Public Service (CPS). Examines the U.S. Forest Service smoke jumping program, begun in 1939.

Moore, Robert J. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country: Working in the Woods. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xvi + 156 pp. Photographs, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, $34.95 cloth. Account of the 1930s experiences of Civilian Conservation Corps men in Arizona's Mogollon Rim, including their work building roads, public campsites, hiking trails, fire lookout towers, and administration buildings; fighting fires; controlling erosion; eliminating vermin; and restoring damaged soils. Includes interviews and photographs from workers' personal collections.

Morin, Paula. Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xxv+376 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. $24.95 paper. Portrait of the wild horses of the United States' Great Basin region, examining their history since Spanish exploration, their natural environment, and their place in the West's ecosystem. Includes narratives from people like the Nevada state director for the Bureau of Land Management, cowboys, veterinarians, and ranchers.

Nations, James D. The Maya Tropical Forest: People, Parks, and Ancient Cities. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xviii+323 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper. Examines how ancient and modern inhabitants of the Maya Tropical Forest (in the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize) have used and protected the forest's natural resources. Reviews the history of the forest's ecology, indigenous peoples, biological preserves, national parks, and archaeological sites, and explores future threats and solutions.

Nisbet, Jack. The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2005. xii+180 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index, bibliography. Examines the life, work, writings, journals, and maps of North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson (1770–1857), who between 1801 and 1812 established trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and surveyed the entire course of the Columbia River. Places Thompson's movements within the larger contexts of the European Enlightenment, the British fur trade economy, and American expansion as represented by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

O'Neill, Karen M. Rivers By Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx+278 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper. History of the emergence and social origins of the United States' extensive flood management system, beginning in the late eighteenth century and culminating in the 1936 passage of the Flood Control Act. Focuses on the lower Mississippi River and the Sacramento River in California.

Olpin, Robert S., Thomas F. Rugh, and Ann W. Orton. Painters of the Wasatch Mountains. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2005. ix+225 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth. Survey of a distinct style of painting associated with Utah's Wasatch mountain range, which emerged in the nineteenth century and continues into the twenty-first. Includes historical background on the region and on the development of American landscape painting, a portfolio of about 275 artworks (nineteenth century-2000s), and artist biographies.

Panetta, Roger, ed. Westchester: The American Suburb. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xii+468 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $44.95 cloth. Collection of essays by architectural and social historians on "quintessentially suburban" Westchester County, New York, exploring both the technical aspects and the social symbolism of suburbs in America, primarily nineteenth century-2000s.

Pike, David L. Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xviii+355 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 paper. Explores the representation of underground space beneath Paris and London in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examines portrayals of the urban underworld in film, literature, and art, analyzing the influence of subways, sewers, tunnels, catacombs, and cemeteries on modernizing and industrializing urban culture.

Rajala, Richard A. Feds, Forests, and Fire: A Century of Canadian Forestry Innovation. Transformation Series No. 13. Ottawa, Ont.: National Museum of Science and Technology, 2005. xi + 116 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Historical analysis of forest management in Canada in the late nineteenth through late twentieth centuries, focusing on the federal government's contributions to the science and technology of fire protection, inventory, and silviculture.

Ricketts, Edward Flanders. Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts. Edited by Katharine Anne Rodger. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xix+348 pp. Compilation of writings by American conservationist and marine biologist Edward Flanders Ricketts (1896–1948), including essays, journals, travel notes, and scientific writings (many previously unpublished).

Rosenholm, Arja, and Sari Autio-Sarasmo, eds. Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 370 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography. Collection of essays analyzing different historical concepts of and approaches to nature in Russian cultural self-understanding and national identity, focusing on nature as a transmitter of national myths and political symbols. Based on papers given at the Third Aleksanteri conference in November 2003.

Sarkar, Sahotra. Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi+258 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth. Explores the late-twentieth century emergence of the discipline of conservation biology and epistemological and ethical issues at the base of environmental philosophy. Argues for an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation and against assigning intrinsic value to nature.

Smith, Thomas G. Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. x+404 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth. Biography of Congressman and environmental champion John P. Saylor, highlighting his work to protect America's national parks and add new areas to the parks system in the three decades following Word War II.

Sturgeon, Janet C. Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xi+255 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. Comparative, interdisciplinary study of landscape change and land use among the Akha people of Thailand and China (known as Hani in China), showing how processes of state formation, identity construction, and regional security concerns over the course of the twentieth century have caused very different outcomes for Chinese and Thai Akha and Akha forests.

Waldbauer, Gilbert. A Walk Around the Pond: Insects in and Over the Water. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 286 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $22.95 cloth. Portrait of the aquatic insects inhabiting ponds, lakes, streams and rivers (largely in North America)—their evolution, natural history, and ecology. Includes a small amount of history of human interaction with water insects.

West, Paige. Conservation is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. xxvii+320 pp. Illustrations, map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper. Ethnographic analysis of the history and social impacts of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea, focusing on a 1990s biodiversity conservation project in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area. Examines the expectations of and interactions between the NGO workers who ran the program and the Gimi people who live in the surrounding forests.

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