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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

Balée, William, and Clark L. Erickson, eds. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xii+417 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, index. $80.00 cloth. Collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists examining how alterations in the natural world reflect human cultures in the Ecuadorian Andes, Amazonia, the desert coast of Peru, and other parts of the neotropics. Addresses modern issues like biodiversity and genetic variation.

Billington, David P., and Donald C. Jackson. Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xiv + 369 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $36.95 cloth. History of government-sponsored dams built in the American West during the New Deal Era on the Columbia, Colorado, Missouri, and Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers (1930s-1940s). Examines the interplay of nature, engineering science and design, politics, and public concerns in dam construction.

Bishop, Holley. Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey—the Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World. New York: Free Press, 2005. 324 pp. Illustrations, index. $24.00 cloth. Study of the history and science of bees and beekeeping, including examinations of the evolution of honey and beeswax harvesting; working beehives from ancient Egypt to the present day; writing about bees and honey, such as by Charles Darwin; and the various roles of bees in modern crop production and society. Interspersed with the author's reflections on her own beekeeping experiences.

Botti, William B, and Michael D. Moore. Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006. xx + 201 pp. Illustration, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. History of Michigan's state forest system from the late nineteenth century by two former employees of the state's Department of Natural Resources. Recounts how cut-over wilderness areas, many of which were burned by the fires of 1871, were converted into productive and protected public lands.

Boye, Alan. Tales from the Journey of the Dead: Ten Thousand Years on an American Desert. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 255 pp. Photographs, map, notes, bibliography. $26.95 cloth. History of the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of the Dead), a 120-mile stretch of desert south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, exploring the area's various inhabitants and some of the major events that have occurred there, such as Indian, Mexican-American War, and Civil War battles and the world's first atomic explosion.

Bratspies, Rebecca M., and Russell A. Miller, eds. Transboundary Harm in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 347 pp. Notes, index. $95.00 cloth. Explores the changing nature of state responses to transboundary harm, examining the influence of the early-twentieth century Trail Smelter arbitration—a cross-boundary dispute between the U.S. and Canada over air pollution from Consolidated Mining operations—on international environmental law. In particular, the authors explore whether there are lessons from the case that are useful for resolving transboundary challenges.

Brooks, Karl Boyd. Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell's Canyon High Dam Controversy. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xxvii + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth. Account of the controversy surrounding the plan to construct the world's biggest dam in Hells Canyon on Idaho's Snake River in the years following World War II. Examines the implications of the debate for public-power expansion, New Deal natural resources and economic policy, and the burgeoning environmental movement.

Brummelhuis, Han Ten. King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005. xvi + 469 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Account of how van der Heide, a Dutch hydraulic engineer, failed attempts to implement his plans for modern irrigation in Siam (Thailand) in the early twentieth century. Explores the political, economic, and cultural context of van der Heide's efforts and his relationship to the Siamese environment. Includes a history of water management in Siam from the seventeenth century.

Burdon, Rowland D., and William J. Libby. Genetically Modified Forests: From Stone Age to Modern Biotechnology. Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 2006. xii + 79 pp. Illustrations, glossary, suggested reading. $8.95 paper. Brief overview of the history of and concerns surrounding tree modification and improvement, from the Stone Age through early twenty-first-century genetic engineering.

Ceaser, James W., et al. Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. viii + 229 pp. Notes, index. Ceaser, a political scientist, traces the way in which "foundational" ideas about nature, history, and religion have been understood and used as elements of political discourse by American statesmen and public intellectuals from the Puritans to the early twenty-first century. The three other authors provide critical reactions to Ceaser's arguments, to which he then responds with "foundational concepts reconsidered."

Davidson, Gail S., et al. Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2006. xiii + 180 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Explores the promotion of tourism and national pride through landscape painting in nineteenth-century America using the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's collections of oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Church, Homer, and Moran.

de Steiguer, J. E. The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. x + 246 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Introduction to the seminal thinkers who created the modern environmental movement. Begins with the earliest philosophies that underlie the field, including the works of Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold; describes the milieu in which the modern environmental movement began, with the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; summarizes works by scholars who helped shape and define modern environmentalism, including Barry Commoner, Paul Ehrlich, and Arne Naess. Updated and expanded from the author's 1997 book The Age of Environmentalism.

Dickerson, Matthew, and Jonathan Evans. Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xxvi + 316 pp. Appendix, notes, index. $35.00 cloth. Examines environmental philosophy in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), arguing for the influence of his vision of nature. Compares Tolkien with other twentieth-century environmental scholars and nature writers including Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold.

Edelson, S. Max. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiii + 383 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, notes, index. $45.00 cloth. Examines relationships between slaves, planters, and the natural world in the Carolina low country during the colonial period. Reconstructs environmental, economic, and cultural factors in relation to rice and indigo cultivation that made the region prosperous and its field labor particularly repressive.

Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Boston//New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xi + 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, acknowledgements, index. $28.00 cloth. Account of the dust storms that devastated America's High Plains during the Great Depression, following six families through the region's development in the early twentieth century and attempts to survive in the midst of environmental and economic disaster.

Eisner, Marc Allen. Governing the Environment: The Transformation of Environmental Regulation. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2007. xiii + 322 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index. $24.50 paper. Overview of environmental regulation in the United States from the inception of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 into the George W. Bush administration. Considers the global nature of environmental issues and postulates alternatives to early-twenty-first century regulatory regimes.

Elder, John. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xv + 282 pp. Notes, index. Account of author's experiences retracing the path of "America's first environmentalist," George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882), from Vermont to Italy and the managed forest of Vallombrosa. Explores Marsh's life, work, and 1862 manifesto Man and Nature, relating them to the author's own experiences with maple sugaring and sustainable forestry. Combines elements of environmental history, literary criticism, travel writing, and memoir.

Flippen, J. Brooks. Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Biography of Republican conservationist Russell E. Train (1920-), chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s. Highlights Train's unique environmentalism and his significance within the history of the contemporary environmental movement.

Franklin, Adrian. Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2006. viii + 262 pp. Notes, references, index. Traces the history of human-animal interaction in Australia from the colonial period through the early twenty-first century. Argues that animals have been the focus of intense social and political conflict, used to legitimize and marginalize various human groups in colonial and postcolonial Australia.

Fridriksson, Sturla. Surtsey: Ecosystems Formed. Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, 2005. 112 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, references. Examination of Surtsey, an island formed by volcanic eruption beginning in 1963 off the coast of Iceland. The author, an environmental scientist, started investigating the colonization of life on Surtsey from the beginning; he covers the eruption itself, the island's geography, landscape, history, development, and the origins and dispersal of organisms.

Gersdorf, Catrin, and Sylvia Mayer, eds. Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. 490 pp. Notes, index. $130.00 cloth. Collection of essays by European and North American scholars attempting to expand the boundaries of ecocriticsm towards an understanding of nature that "challenges modern culture's philosophical assumptions, epistemological convictions, aesthetic principles, and ethical imperatives." Includes essays on ecofeminism and colonialism, ecolinguistics, nationalism, and environmental ethics in international literature and philosophy from the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries.

Goble, Dale D., J. Michael Scott, and Frank W. Davis, eds. The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Volume One: Renewing the Conservation Promise. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006. xiv + 372 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, references, index. Multi-disciplinary review of the implementation of the 1973 Endangered Species Act on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary. Includes essays on species that have been protected, examples of effective on-the-ground conservation, and recommendations, successful approaches, and models for biodiversity conservation.

Hadot, Pierre. The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Cambridge and London: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 399 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95 cloth. Extended philosophical exploration of the aphorism from the Greek thinker Heraclitus, "nature loves to hide." The author takes the figure of the goddess Isis as a guide, tracing successive interpretations of Heraclitus's words by the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Heidegger, and Rousseau and drawing his own conclusions about Western attitudes towards nature and art.

Hammond, Richard P., and Thomas J. Curran. Environmentalism and the Government. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2005. ix+131 pp. Bibliography, index. Brief overview of the most important issues and developments in the history of federal government control over the environment in the United States, mid-nineteenth century through 1980s. Covers such topics as the creation of the national parks, the New Deal, post-World War II environmental activism, and the policies of the Reagan administration.

Hébert, Yves. Une histoire de l'ecologie au Québec : les regards sur la nature des origines à nos jours [Visions of Nature: A History of Ecology in Quebec]. Québec: Editions GID, 2006. 477 pp. Explores the relationship between scientific ecology and environmentalism in Québec, Canada. Covers major environmental problems including deforestation, conservation of natural resources, and pollution.Text in French.

Hessing, Melody, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands, eds. This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. xx + 386 pp. Map, tables, bibliography, index. Collection of essays providing an introduction to the literature on women and the environment in Canada, drawing from geographical, historical, and cultural perspectives. Addresses questions including women's political activity in environmental and resource policy; how women's roles in the family, community, and workforce are mediated by the environment; and how or if a feminist perspective allows better understanding of the Canadian environment. nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Jennings, Eric T. Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95 paper. Examines the rationale and practice of French colonial hydrotherapy from 1830–1962, comparing the histories of spas featuring cures and protection against malaria, yellow fever, and other "colonial" diseases in colonies like Guadeloupe, Madagascar, Tunisia, and in France itself.

Johnson, Christopher. This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains. Durham and Lebanon, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, University Press of New England, 2006. x + 313 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95 cloth. Environmental history of New Hampshire's White Mountains, from the range's days as homeland of the Abenaki; through European settlement; the development of logging, paper, and tourist industries; its designation as a national wilderness preserve; and early-twenty-first century status as a treasured national forest. Explores the area's ecological, political, economic, and cultural history in the context of changing American attitudes and policies toward wilderness over time.

Kimmel, Jim. The San Marcos: A River's Story. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 155 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. History, ecology, and use of Texas' San Marcos River. Includes history of occupation/use of San Marcos Springs from the Paleo-Indian period, covering Anglo-American settlement, through the early twenty-first century.

Kirby, Jack Temple. Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xx + 361 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $29.95 cloth. Sweeping, personal examination of the human-nature relationship in the American South, sixteenth through early twenty-first centuries. Explores how the peoples of the South have used and manipulated their environments and their treatment of forests, waters, and animals. Draws from history, film, and literature, especially the work of writers Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. 210 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, selected bibliography, notes, index. $22.95 cloth. Journalistic/scientific/political overview of the global warming crisis, primarily late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Kolvet, Renee Corona, and Victoria Ford. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xxi + 200 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Historical account of the nearly 31,000 young men employed in CCC camps throughout Nevada in the 1930s, who worked improving the state's forests, parks, wildlife habitats, roads, fences, irrigation systems, flood control systems, and rangelands. Draws from private manuscript collections, unpublished memoirs, CCC inspectors' reports, government documents, newspapers, and interviews with CCC veterans and personnel.

Lee, Jeff, ed. The Landscape of Home: A Rocky Mountain Land Series Reader. Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2006. xiii + 190 pp. Illustrations. $17.00 paper. Compilation of excerpts from nonfiction books featured in the Rocky Mountain Land Library's special author series, begun in 2001. Authors include Stewart Udall, Craig Childs, Ann Zwinger, and Andrea Peacock. All works address the question of land and community in the American West, primarily nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Louter, David. Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. xviii + 240 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth. Explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, 1900s to 2000s, tracing the history of Washington State's parks (Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades) to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness in America. Argues that cars have been central to how people experience and interpret the meaning of national parks and how they perceive them as wild.

Lynch, Ida Phillips. The Duke Forest at 75: A Resource for All Seasons. Durham, NC: Office of the Duke Forest, 2006. viii + 128 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Natural, cultural, and administrative history of the Duke Forest on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1931. Based on more than thirty interviews with researchers, local landowners, Duke University faculty and administrators, government officials, and others, chronicles the roles the Forest has played as a research hub, outdoor classroom, working forest, recreational resource for the local community, and historic site.

Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. New York: Doubleday, 2005. ix+426 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Detailed chronicle of Theodore Roosevelt's hazardous 1913 tour of South America and pioneering exploration of the then-uncharted "River of Doubt," a six-hundred-mile long tributary of the Amazon.

Mindell, David P. The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. viii + 341 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. $24.95 cloth. History and examination of evolutionary theory and its applications in everyday life and society, from Darwin to the present. Includes chapters on plant and animal domestication, evolution in public health and medicine, evolution and conservation, evolutionary metaphor in human culture, and the role of evolution in the courts and the classroom.

Miner, Craig. Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xx + 371 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Account of the struggles of western Kansans to create a wheat-based regional economy during the Dust Bowl era, 1890–1940. Discusses the roles of agricultural experiment stations, irrigation technology, women's clubs, pest control, and higher education.

Minteer, Ben A. The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. xiii + 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $28.00 cloth. Explores the intellectual history of environmentalism in America, focusing on the work and legacy of four early-twentieth-century conservationists: Progressive reformer Liberty Hyde Bailey; planning theorist Lewis Mumford; forester and Appalachian Trail founder Benton MacKaye; and nature writer Aldo Leopold. Argues that the works of these four represent the roots of a more pragmatic approach to environmental ethics, tied into moral and political reform.

Most, Stephen. River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin. Portland and Seattle: Oregon Historical Society, University of Washington Press, 2006. xxxiv + 292 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $22.50 paper. Explores how myths of the American West have played out in the Klamath River Basin, spanning the Oregon-California state line. Examines disputes over resources that have occurred among various groups, including farmers, ranchers, Native Americans, and environmentalists, from the nineteenth-century Gold Rush through contemporary controversy surrounding salmon fishing rights.

Moul, Francis. The National Grasslands: A Guide to America's Undiscovered Treasures. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xii + 153 pp. Photographs, maps, acknowledgements, notes, index. $19.95 paper. History of the American grasslands (extending from the Pacific to the eastern edge of North Dakota) and the Grasslands National Park of Canada. In addition to natural history and features of the region, examines the establishment of the national grasslands as part of New Deal-era reform, and summarizes current debates surrounding use and preservation, especially the Buffalo Commons controversy.

Murphy, P. J., et al. The Alberta Forest Service, 1930–2005: Protection and Management of Alberta's Forests. Edmonton: Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Government of Alberta, Canada, 2006. 487 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, references, suggested reading. Records, anecdotes, experiences, and illustrations that relate the history of forest management and protection in Alberta, Canada from early days of aboriginal land use and settlement through 2005, compiled and contextualized by four veterans of Alberta's forest management and fire protection communities. Covers the birth of the Alberta Forest Service in 1930, fire in Alberta forests, lookouts and communications, and the use of aircraft, among other topics.

Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiii + 322 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Examines the history of ecological ideas of health and disease, focusing on California's Central Valley in thenineteenth through early twenty-first centuries. Explores the interaction between culture, environment, and public health issues including wilderness cures, chemical pollution, and cancer clusters.

Neil, J. M. To the White Clouds: Idaho's Conservation Saga, 1900–1970. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2005. xv + 215 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. History of wilderness conservation in Idaho beginning in 1900, focusing on the events that inspired policy changes, and concluding with the 1970 dispute over mining in the White Cloud Peaks.

Nolt, John. A Land Imperiled: The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. xii + 434 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, notes, index. Examines various ecological issues threatening the health of Southern Appalachia, tracking environmental decline in the bioregion over the course of the twentieth century. Includes a long-term history of the area and sections on air, water, plants and animals, food, energy, waste, transportation, and population and urbanization.

Nyíri, Pál. Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xii + 135 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth. Explores the burgeoning tourist industry in late twentieth-early twenty-first century China, arguing that it is unique in that it is guided by the state; "scenic spots" are perceived as a product to be consumed, used to demonstrate China's heroic past, and serve as tools of patriotic education and modernization.

Oldroyd, David. Earth Cycles: A Historical Perspective. Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science Series. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006. xiv + 234 pp. Illustrations, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. Explores the historical importance of geological cycles for the advancement of the earth sciences. Traces thinking on geocycles from the ancient world through the end of the twentieth century, including glaciation, the solar system, geochemical cycling, stratigraphy, geomagnetism, and other topics.

Rajala, Richard A. Up-Coast: Forests and Industry in British Columbia's North Coast, 1870–2005. Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2006. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. History of forest industry in British Columbia's central and north coast areas, late nineteenth century-2000s. Incorporates social, political and environmental themes in examining the relationship between the region's people, including First Nations, and its forests.

Rajan, S Ravi. Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development, 1800–1950. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. xvi + 286 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Examines the origins, institutionalization, and politics underlying European colonial forestry, arguing that tensions between ideological and interventionist traditions in the "colonial sciences" help explain environmental politics and policy dilemmas in the post-colonial era. Primarily 1850–1950.

Rea, Tom. Devil's Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xii + 307 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 cloth. History of conflict and land ownership in the central Wyoming's Sweetwater River valley, which includes Devil's Gate and other sites along the Oregon Trail. Primarily nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Reece, Erik. Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. xv + 250 pp. Illustrations, notes. $24.95 cloth. Chronicle of how strip miners sheared away the top of eastern Kentucky's Lost Mountain from October 2003 to September 2004, within the larger context of the nineteenth-twentieth century history of the Appalachian coal mining industry. Examines labor practices in the industry, environmental effects of strip mining and mountaintop removal, and the organization of activism against these practices.

Robertson, David. Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town. Mining the American West Series. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xiv + 216 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth. History of the mining towns of Toluca, Illinois; Cokedale, Colorado; and Picher, Oklahoma, from the mineral discovery phase in the mid-to-late nineteenth century through the twentieth-century closure of the mines, exploring how these towns have survived and the importance of sense of place to their inhabitants. Acknowledges mining's social, environmental, and economic legacies but argues that the industry has also contributed to the creation of strong, cohesive communities.

Rogers, Heather. Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. New York, London: The New Press, 2006. xi + 288 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $15.95 paper. History of trash handling in the United States from the 1800s to the 2000s, examining the roles of government, corporations and consumerism, the sources and ultimate fates of garbage, and its implications for the global environment.

Rudel, Thomas K. Tropical Forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xvi + 231 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Analyzes local studies of rain forest destruction from the late twentieth century with the goal of developing a global perspective on tropical deforestation and forest cover change. Includes chapters on South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Sachs, Aaron. The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. New York: Viking, 2006. xii + 495 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95 cloth. Examines nineteenth-century American exploration, questioning the assumption that explorers were primarily agents of empire and arguing that instead, many contributed to laying the groundwork for ecology-based environmentalism. Traces the influence of Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt, considered the founder of ecology, as reflected in the writings of J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace Melville, and John Muir.

Santiago, Myrna I. The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00 cloth. Using northern Veracruz, Mexico as a case study, explores the social and environmental effects of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Argues that Mexican oil workers challenged the results of oil development around the time of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) by forging a militant political resistance, and that they deserve credit for the 1938 decree nationalizing the foreign oil industry. Provides historical background on the region from the nineteenth century.

Smith, Jordan Fisher. Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 216 pp. Map. Memoir of the author's fourteen years as a park ranger on the land along the Sierra Nevada's American River in California, 1980s-1990s. Describes his sometimes disturbing encounters with nature and especially with the people who made use of the land for recreational and other purposes. Includes some land use and natural history of the region.

Summers, Gregory. Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii+256 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Examines environmental conflict in central Wisconsin's Fox River Valley over industrial pollution from paper mills, 1850–1950. Argues that industrial, agricultural, and technological change helped produce modern American consumerism, creating the conditions for the emergence of the environmental movement.

Thorson, John E., Sarah Britton, and Bonnie G. Colby, eds. Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. xii+291 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. In-depth treatment of the negotiation and implementation of Indian water rights settlements in the American West, examining both legal and historical aspects. Includes essays by attorneys and scholars in the fields of law, economics, and public policy. Largely late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Tishler, William H. Door County's Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xvi + 241 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. History of Wisconsin's Peninsula State Park and its land from early Native American and European inhabitants through the twentieth century. Explores the role of conservationists and progressives in the 1909 establishment of the park, tourism, recreation, and resource protection, among other topics.

Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 377 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper. Collection of essays examining the commodity chains connecting Latin American producers with global consumers, 1500–2000. Traces Latin American exports, including coffee, bananas, rubber, tobacco, silver, and cocaine, focusing on changing patterns of production and consumption over time and highlighting Latin America's central place in the global economy.

Truett, Samuel. Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 259 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth. Examines attempts by Mexican and American entrepreneurs, statesmen, and corporations to domesticate nature and society in the transnational mining region on the Arizona-Sonora border, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. Explores how efforts to tame the "wild" frontier were obstructed by labor and social conflict, and how ordinary people in the region resisted domination.

Walters, Mark Jerome. Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006. 293 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 cloth. Account of how the Hawaiian 'alala, or sacred raven, came to the verge of extinction in the 1990s. Provides historical background on human interaction with the species from the 1800s, and offers lessons for wildlife management by examining how efforts to protect the species ended up contributing to its decline.

Warde, Paul. Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time Series, 41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 394 pp. Tables, figures, maps, glossary, bibliography, index, $99.00 cloth. Study of the role of wood and woodlands in the economy and society of southwest Germany, late fifteenth-early eighteenth centuries, in the larger context of the interaction between government and material resources.

Whisnant, Anne Mitchell. Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xx + 434 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. History of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic highway connecting the Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah National Parks, from its beginnings in the 1930s through completion in the 1980s. Departs from romantic views of the Parkway as a Depression-era project "laid upon the landscape," exploring political disputes surrounding the project, effects for local landowners, and the highway's environmental impacts.

Wills, John. Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xi + 244 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Examines opposition to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's decision to build a nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, a relatively unsettled, biologically rich, and scenic area of the central California coast, in the 1960s-1970s.

Wilson, Anthony. Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. xxv + 208 pp. Bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth. Examination of the role of the swamp in the cultural, literary and ecological history of the southern United States from the antebellum period through the early twenty-first century. Explores the paradox of metaphors about the swamp as the underside of the myth of pastoral Eden, and as the last pure remnant of Southern wilderness.

Wilson, Diane. An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2005. 391 pp. Map, foreword, prologue, epilogue, acknowledgements. $27.50 cloth. Novelistic account of the experiences of the author, a fourth-generation shrimper, fighting the pollution of Lavaca Bay, Texas caused by chemical companies, most notably Formosa Plastics. Late 1980s-2000s.

Winthrop, Theodore. The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxii + 236 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $13.95 paper. Travel memoir of New Englander Theodore Winthrop's 1853 tour of the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia—a bestseller when it was originally published after the Civil War—including his observations on nature, Native Americans, and the ecological and racial turmoil in the region at the time. This edition contains the original text with a new introduction by Paul Lindholdt.

Wuerthner, George, ed. Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Washington: Island Press, 2006. xxix + 322 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossaries, notes, index. Collection of essays and illustrations analyzing wildfire in the United States from ecological, economic, and social/political perspectives, making the case that past forest policies have hindered natural processes and created more problems than they have solved. Primarily late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

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