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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

Afrandilian, Dave, Marion W. Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson, eds. What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2007. xxv + 343 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, index. Interdisciplinary essays exploring the diverse meanings of animals in human societies, focusing on cultural products and folkloric, historical, literary, scientific, and religious representations of animals. Covers a wide range of time periods and geographic areas. Includes a section of chapters on zoologist and father of ethology, Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989).

Allan, George, and Merle F. Allshouse, eds. Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferré. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. vii + 373 pp. Collection of essays informed by the ideas of Frederick Ferré on nature. Challenges theories like postmodernism and deconstructionism, from a variety of perspectives including ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies.

André, Rae. Take Back the Sky: Protecting Communities in the Path of Aviation Expansion. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006. 240 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Examines the environmental and social impacts of aviation expansion from the 1980s to the 2000s. Addresses problems presented by airport expansion, such as pollution and noise, and discusses several case studies of community activism against such problems. Proposes an agenda for future action against aviation expansion.

Babe, Robert E. Culture of Ecology: Reconciling Economics and Environment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xiv + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth. Analyzes the evolution of Western thinking about the relationship between environmental issues and economic theory, proposing ways technological advancement and mainstream economics can be made to conform to ecological principles. Reviews theorists as early as Aristotle, but focuses mainly on prospects for the early twenty-first century.

Bailey, Robert F., III. Maryland's Forests and Parks: A Century of Progress. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006. 127 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $19.99 paper. Photographic essay illustrating the history of Maryland's forests and parks from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Photographs include depictions of Maryland's first state forester, Fred W. Besley, in the early 1900s; improvements made in the parks by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and 1940s; and landscapes in Maryland's parks and forests throughout the twentieth century.

Baver, Sherrie L., and Barbara Deutsch Lynch, eds. Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. vii + 210 pp. Bibliography, index. Collection of essays addressing environmental problems in the Caribbean and the social movements that have arisen to address them, twentieth-early twenty-first centuries. Essays discuss specific environmental issues like pollution and waste management, explore the impact of tourism on the economy and ecology of the Caribbean islands, and describe environmental justice problems faced by Caribbean emigrants to the United States.

Beder, Sharon. Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006. viii + 304 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. $54.95 paper. Evaluates global economic and market-based environmental policies, such as emissions trading and biodiversity banks, according to social and environmental principles. Offers an in-depth exploration of six major principles of environmental treaties and laws. These include ecological sustainability, the polluter pays principle, the precautionary principle, equity, human rights, and public participation.

Beidleman, Richard G. California's Frontier Naturalists. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xv + 484 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth. Series of essays examining the experiences of naturalists drawn to California's biodiversity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the La Pérouse expedition in 1786 through the Death Valley expedition of 1890–1891. Includes well-known names like David Douglas, Thomas Nuttall, and William Brewer, and less famous ones like Paolo Botta and Sarah Lemmon.

Belanger, Dian Olson. Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xxix + 493 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Describes the events and legacy of 1957, the International Geophysical Year in Antarctica, during which scientists from the U.S. and 11 other countries convened in Antarctica to conduct scientific observations of the south-polar ice and atmosphere. Drawing on interviews, diaries, and memoirs, discusses how the endeavor dispelled some of the tensions of the Cold War and established a basis for scientific cooperation in Antarctica that endures into the 2000s.

Bernik, Ed, and Lisa Gensheimer. Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest. Bradford, PA: Forest Press, 2006. iv + 138 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $39.95 cloth. Documents Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest in photographs and prose. Essay traces the history of the forest beginning 375 million years ago, through its glaciation 20,000 years ago, and continuing until the beginning of the twenty-first century. Describes the history of the forest's human inhabitants, from the settlement of its first residents 7000 years ago, through the arrival of European settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the subsequent era of the timber industry and oil industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the designation of the land as a national forest in 1923. Photographs depict the forest's landscapes, buildings, animals, and people.

Bittermann, Rusty. Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii + 372 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. History of the nineteenth-century Escheat Movement on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in which rural settlers resisted landlord property claims and sought to have the state the state resume, or escheat, the large grants of land that created landlordism. Examines the dynamic of rural protest on the Island from its establishment as a British colony in the 1760s through the 1840s, exploring how a scattered and diverse population of squatters, tenants and freeholders managed to combine their efforts into a coherent movement of protest.

Botshon, Ann. Saving Sterling Forest: The Epic Struggle to Preserve New York's Highlands. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xii + 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, notes, index. $19.95 paper. Account of the struggle to save Sterling Forest, a tract of wilderness in the New York-New Jersey highlands, from development and suburbanization. Focuses on the successful efforts of environmental groups and government entities in the 1980s-1990s, but includes historical background on the region from the colonial era.

Boullet, Daniel. Entreprises et Environnement en France de 1960 a 1990: Les Chemins d'une Prise de Conscience. Genève: Librarie Droz, 2006. 696 pp. + Figures, appendices, glossary, indeces. "Business and Environment in France, 1960–1990: Following One's Conscience." Traces the origins of environmental protection in late twentieth-century France, especially the increasing attention of industry to environmental concerns.

Burr, Christina. Canada's Victorian Oil Town: The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community. Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. xii + 295 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00 cloth. History of the oil town of Petrolia, Ontario in Canada, exploring how in the nineteenth century the oil industry provided a common culture that helped transform the rough boom town into an orderly Victorian community. Examines relationships between technology, culture, and imperialism in community development, as well as the role of Petrolia's image in public memory into the late twentieth century.

Busby, Mark, and Terrell Dixon, eds. John Graves, Writer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xviii + 266 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Collection of interviews, personal essays, and literary criticism memorializing the life and work of Texas writer John Graves (1920-), author of various works of environmental literature, including Goodbye to a River (1960).

Catton, Theodore. National Park, City Playground. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. ix + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95 paper. Traces the history of Mount Rainier as a national park through the twentieth century, in particular the mountain's relationship with the two Washington cities of Seattle and Tacoma.

Checker, Melissa. Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xi + 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Ethnographic case study of the environmental justice movement of the Hyde Park neighborhood in Augusta, Georgia. Discusses the siting of nine polluting industries around the neighborhood, and the subsequent rise of health problems among Hyde Park's primarily African-American residents. Describes the strategies and activities of environmental activists in Hyde Park in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Analyzes the intersection of race and class with pollution and land use policies.

Coates, Peter. American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xx + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95 cloth. Analyzes the history of American attitudes toward non-native species through a series of species case studies, from the 1850s to the twentieth century, situating them within the wider context of human immigration. Explores cultural understandings of nationality, race, and immigration, and how these have affected American attitudes about the natural world.

Crooks, Kevin R., and M. Sanjayan, eds. Connectivity Conservation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 712 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, index. $80.00 paper. Collection of essays addressing landscape connections (which allow animals, plants, and ecological processes to move from one habitat patch to another) and their importance in species preservation. In three parts: essays discussing approaches to connectivity research, essays exploring the assessment of landscape connections, and essays that analyze the challenges and implementation of connectivity conservation.

Curtin, Deane. Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. xiv + 223 pp. Bibliography, index. Explores connections between colonialism and environmentalism, placing modern social and environmental ethical issues into historical, political, and philosophical context. Focuses on such topics as British colonialism in India, overpopulation, globalization and the Third World, nature in the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) and Mary Shelley (1797–1851), and the environmental visions of Aldo Leopold (1886–1948).

Derry, Margaret E. Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800–1920. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvii + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $60.00 cloth. History of horse breeding and marketing in Britain, the United States, and Canada, nineteenth through early twentieth centuries, incorporating the evolution of veterinary medicine, humanitarianism, and international trade. Examines how horse breeding practices designed to increase their market value were influenced by philosophies of Darwinism, eugenics, and Mendelism.

Deur, Douglas, and Nancy J. Turner, eds. Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press//UBC Press, 2005. xii + 404 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Overview of landscape management and plant cultivation and manipulation by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska, primarily eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Challenges traditional perceptions of indigenous food production as non-invasive hunting and gathering. Includes contributions from archaeologists, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, ecologists, geographers, and Native American scholars and elders.

Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo. Writing from the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darién, 1514–1527. Translated by G. F. Dille. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xvi + 218 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50 paper. Segment of author Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's sixteenth-century Historia general y natural de las Indias ("General and Natural History of the Indies,") focused on the first year of his appointment as inspector of the gold mines of Castilla de Oro in Darién, Panama, the first viable Spanish settlement on the American mainland.

Ferriéres, Madeleine. Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiii + 399 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Traces the history of food fears, from a fourteenth century French lord considering an ordinance on butchery practices, to the impact of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, an expose of the conditions in American industrial slaughterhouses in 1908. Includes various other case studies of public health scares associated with meat, bread, vegetables, and processed foods. Explores the role of the media in amplifying public fears about food safety.

Fleming, James Rodger, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen, eds. Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006. xx + 264 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, index. $39.95 cloth. Collection of essays by historians of weather and climate, exploring meteorological history from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Includes essays about the research and contributions of specific meteorologists, the evolution of meteorology as a science, and the gaps between popular and scientific understandings of weather. Result of a meeting on the history of meteorology organized by the International Commission on History of Meteorology in 2004.

Gottlieb, Roger S., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxi + 662 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Collection of essays exploring the connections between various religious systems and ecological issues and ideas. Includes essays describing religious concepts of nature in Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Jainism, Islam, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and the religious traditions of Africa. Also includes essays that explore broad theological ideas in connection with the ecological crisis, and articles that examine religious participation in environmental politics.

Hak, Gordon. Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934–74. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. 258 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. Comprehensive study of the forest industry in British Columbia, Canada in the twentieth century from the perspectives of workers and employers. Examines companies and labor unions, drawing on theories of the labor process, Fordism, and discursive subjectivity to relate daily work to wider business ideology, technological development, unionism, and corporate control.

Harrison, Blake. The View from Vermont: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2006. xiv + 323 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95 paper. Examines the history of tourism in Vermont, from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1980s. Explores the interactions between labor and recreation, and the ways in which tourism in Vermont has shaped and been shaped by the region's changing landscape and culture.

Holthaus, Gary. From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. 19 + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. Analyzes the current state of American agriculture, particularly the impacts of globalization and technology, drawing heavily on interviews with farmers. Argues that Americans are becoming increasingly disconnected from the origins of their food supply, and that small farms are vital to the economy.

Hornborg, Alf, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier, eds. Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. Lanham: Altamira Press, 2007. xvi + 406 pp. Maps, figures, tables, index. $39.95 paper. Collection of essays on global environmental history, particularly as it intersects with economics. Topics explored include the relationship between human social processes and natural processes, the role of food in economic globalization, and global environmental justice.

Howard, Sir Albert. The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture. Culture of the Land Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xxvii + 307 pp. Illustrations, figures, index. $24.95 paper. Reprint of work originally published in 1947, with new introduction by Wendell Berry. Debuted as industrial agriculture was first becoming widespread, arguing against chemical fertilization and for the inextricable connection between healthy soil, vegetation, animals, and human health. Has since proven foundational to the organic and sustainable farming movements.

Isenberg, Andrew C., ed. The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xix + 200 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, notes, index. $75.00 cloth. Collection of essays exploring the intersection of urban places and the natural environment from the late Renaissance through the early twenty-first century. Essays investigate topics such as uprisings, epidemics, natural disasters, and the environmental history of the rise and fall of cities in settings including New York, London, New Orleans, Seattle, and Venice, Italy. Interdisciplinary collection drawing on studies of race, class, landscape, economy, and culture.

Kosek, Jake. Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 380 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper. Examines issues of race, class, and nationalism in struggles over forests in twentieth-century New Mexico. Traces the history of forest extraction and labor exploitation, Hispano dispossession of forested land through federal programs, Hispano perceptions of the Forest Service and of Smokey Bear as a symbol of white racist colonialism, and the impact of the Los Alamos National Laboratory on regional ecology and economy, among other topics.

Lawrence, Henry W. City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xvi + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth. Guide to the history of trees in the urban landscapes of Europe and America, sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Examines the historical evolution of the spaces in which trees were planted and how these spaces were used, reflecting on the impact trees have had on city life. Draws on graphic materials, written descriptions, and local histories.

Lear, Linda. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. xix + 584 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 cloth. Biography of early twentieth century children's writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter, with particular attention to Potter's relationship with nature and conservation.

Lee, David. Chainsaws: A History. Madeira Park BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2006. 216 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. History of chainsaws, including over 300 photographs. Traces the history of the chainsaw from early prototypes in the 1850s to the technological innovations of the early twenty-first century. Includes a timeline of important developments in chainsaw history.

Lucero, Lisa J., and Barbara W. Fash, eds. Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. vi + 304 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Collection of essays examining water management among ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern peoples from both economic and symbolic perspectives. Seeks to combine functional and political understandings of water systems with sacred aspects, presenting a unified vision of how water was viewed, used, and represented.

MacLaren, I. S. Mapper of Mountains: M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902–1930. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005. xviii + 295 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Biographical account of the career of Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison Parsons Bridgland, who used innovative photo-topographical techniques to create some of the first maps of the Canadian Rockies between 1902 and 1930. Traces the history of surveying and mapping in the Canadian West in the centuries before Bridgland's arrival, beginning in the 1500s; describes Bridgland's photographic methods and topographical work; and discusses the work of the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project, an effort launched in the 1990s to study ecological changes over time in the Canadian Rockies, based on Bridgland's photographs. Includes reproductions of some of M. P. Bridgland's original maps.

Manore, Jean L., and Dale G. Miner, eds. The Culture of Hunting in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. x + 276 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, index. $32.95 paper. Essays on the history, culture, and practice of hunting in Canada from the pre-colonial period through the early twenty-first century, written by practitioners and scholars of hunting as well as by pro- and anti-hunting lobbyists. Topics addressed include hunting ethics, animal rights, gun control, and tensions between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups.

McCully, Betsy. City at the Water's Edge: A Natural History of New York. New Brunswick: Rivergate Books//Rutgers University Press, 2007. xii + 186 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $24.95 cloth. Natural history of New York City that challenges the notion of the city as entirely man-made and unnatural, arguing instead that the city is part of a viable ecosystem termed the Lower Hudson Bioregion. Traces the geological history of the region beginning a half billion years ago, and proposes future scenarios based upon potential human impact on the ecosystem.

Metheny, Karen Bescherer. From the Miners' Doublehouse: Archaeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxix + 305 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Archaeologist author examines the physical and cultural landscape of the western Pennsylvania coal-mining town of Helvetia, using documentary sources, oral history, and material culture to explore mine workers' construction of community, late nineteenth through mid-twentieth century.

Meyer, Stephen M. The End of the Wild. Somerville and Cambridge: Boston Review//MIT Press, 2006. 98 pp. Notes. $14.95 cloth. Drawing on scientific research, argues that the eventual extinction of half of the world's plant and animal species by the end of the twenty-first century is inevitable and irreversible. Advocates immediate action to preserve and restore the ecosystems we depend on for survival.

Milazzo, Paul Charles. Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945–1972. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas , 2006. xii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Examines water quality activism by members of the United States Congress, including Minnesota's John Blatnik, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, and Maine's Edmund Muskie, 1940s-1970s. Incorporates the history of federal water pollution control into the broader story of political and institutional development, covering major clean water legislation during the period.

Nelson, Lynn A. Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880. Environmental History and the American South Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xviii + 295 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth. Case study of Pharsalia, a nineteenth-century plantation in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, demonstrating how southern planters pursued an ideal of agrarian independence while paradoxically relying on capitalistic methods like intensification and slavery. Explores the consequences of this tension both for the region's ecology and for the ensuing southern conservation movement. Traces the plantations rise and fall from the 1730s through the 1880s.

Newton, Julianne Lutz. Aldo Leopold's Odyssey. Washington: Island Press, 2006. xvii + 483 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $32.95 cloth. Examines the intellectual and professional development of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold (1886–1948), building on past scholarship and a new study of Leopold's unpublished archival materials. Includes analyses of Leopold's major works, especially his Sand County Almanac (originally published in 1949).

Ott, Riki. Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Cordova, AK: Dragonfly Sisters Press, 2005. xxviii + 561 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, map, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Investigative history of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 24 March 1989 in Alaska's Prince William Sound, tracing the incident's effects through the 2000s. Reconstructs the event and its social, health, and environmental impacts, drawing on court records, official reports, and personal accounts.

Pate, J'nell L. America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2005. xiv + 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Provides a historical overview of American stockyards between 1865 and the 1980s. In two parts: a general history of livestock marketing in the U.S., and a series of case studies of stockyards — from early market cities in the eastern U.S., to later stockyards in the western U.S.

Paulson, Deborah D., and William L. Baker. The Nature of Southwestern Colorado: Recognizing Human Legacies and Restoring Natural Places. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xxix + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. Describes the ecology of the Colorado Plateau in southwestern Colorado, detailing its six subregions, with particular attention to the relationship between humans and nature. Provides a history of people in the region dating back 15,000 years. Discusses human influences on the region's flora and fauna, the role of labor and industry in its changing ecology, and initiatives being taken in the 2000s to protect and restore its ecosystems.

Pellow, David Naguib, and Robert J. Brulle, eds. Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. vii + 339 pp. Bibliography, index. Collection of essays exploring issues of environmental justice in the late twentieth century, including the movement's history and effectiveness, its strategies for the future, and the challenges presented by globalization. Essays analyze environmental justice from various cultural perspectives, and relate environmental justice to race, economic justice, and public health.

Pennier, Henry. 'Call Me Hank:' A Stó:lõ Man's Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xiv + 123 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography. $60.00 cloth. Autobiography of Henry "Hank" Pennier (1904–1991), Aboriginal logger and storyteller, originally published in 1972. Expanded edition offers reflections on his experiences as a logger in Canada's West Coast region from the Depression era through his retirement, contributing to contemporary discourses on race, Aboriginal identity, and labor history.

Price, V. B., and Baker H. Morrow, eds. Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xxi + 217 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, index. $34.95 cloth. Collection of essays on landscapes created by the Pueblo Indians in the American Southwest in prehistoric times. Adopts a landscape architecture perspective, analyzing landscapes created by ancient Puebloan urban cultures that have survived into the twenty-first century. Essays describe the role of gardens in Pueblo landscapes, the influence of European settlers, and the enduring legacy of Pueblo landscapes and people.

Pyne, Stephen J. Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004. xviii + 238 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Provides context for modern debates over wildland fire in America, examining the history of ideas about fire from the "ancient alliance between fire and humanity" through the outburst of public interest caused by destructive western wildfires in the 1990s-2000s, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Presents options for dealing with fire while recognizing its ecological importance.

Rauhalahti, Markku, ed. Essays on the History of Finnish Forestry. Punkaharju, Finland: Luston Tuki Oy, 2006. 165 pp. Illustrations, maps. Collection of essays on the history of forestry in Finland from the Medieval period through 2005, compiled by Lusto (the Finnish Forest Museum) and the Finnish Forest History Society. Topics include reports on the first ten years in the history of Lusto and the Finnish Forest History Society, the development of silviculture and forest management, the coevolution of forestry and society in Finland, and the history and development of timber floating.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 186 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper. Offers a new interpretation of human evolution and the basis for humans' sense of domination over nature. Drawing on paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology, proposes that the rise of big-game hunting 70,000 years ago marks the beginning of human alienation from the environment. Offers an alternative, more ecologically sound way of life, also based upon earlier events in human evolution.

Shepard, M. P., and A. W. Argue. The 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty: Sharing Conservation Burdens and Benefits. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. xvi + 288 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Describes the extensive negotiations between Canada and the United States regarding the management of Pacific salmon fisheries, from the nineteenth century to the signing of the 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty. Analyzes the treaty's impact from its signing to the early 2000s, in light of changing economic and environmental circumstances.

Smith, Allan H. Takhoma: Ethnography of Mount Rainier National Park. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2006. xxiii + 182 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography. $22.95 paper. Investigative analysis of archaeological and ethnographic resources in Washington's Mount Rainier National Park, presenting the author's collected material concerning native toponymy, tribal identities and boundaries, village sites and structures, native trails, and indigenous economic activities. Guide to how indigenous peoples used and interacted with Mount Rainier and its environment.

Snowden, Frank M. The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900–1962. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 296 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Traces the history of the fight against malaria in Italy from the late 1800s to the eradication of the disease in the country in 1962.

Speakman, Joseph M. At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xv + 237 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50 cloth. Historical overview of the Civilian Conservation Corps program in Pennsylvania between 1933 and 1942. Describes the administrative history of the program, as well as the individual experiences of CCC workers who planted trees, fought forest fires, conducted historical preservation, and constructed recreational facilities in Pennsylvania's forests. Includes a chapter on African-American CCC workers.

Starnes, Richard D. Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xiv + 240 pp. Illustrations, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. Traces the history of tourism in Western North Carolina from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Discusses the causes of the tourist industry's rise, and addresses its impact on the region's economy and culture. Explores tensions between the tourist industry and the local residents of Western North Carolina.

Strauss, Stephen H., and H. D. Bradshaw, eds. The Bioengineered Forest: Challenges for Science and Society. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2004. Collection of essays exploring the opportunities, risks, and ethics associated with bioengineering in forestry. Contributors represent a variety of academic perspectives. Topics include the economic and environmental justifications for using forest biotechnologies, the potential consequences of misapplied bioengineering, risks faced by businesses that use biotechnologies, and speculations on the future of forestry and genetic engineering.

Sze, Julie. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. x + 282 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, references, index. $24.00 paper. Analyzes the history, politics, and culture of environmental justice activism in New York City, beginning with the city's sanitation movement in the nineteenth century. Situating the discussion within the context of globalization and deregulation, examines four New York neighborhoods where environmental health activism thrived in the 1980s and 1990s. Explores the intersection of race, family, gender, and public health, and draws on fieldwork and interviews to describe changes in activist tactics in the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Uekoetter, Frank. The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 230 pp. Illustrations, map, figures, bibliography, index. $23.99 cloth. Historical analysis of the relationship between conservationists in Germany and the Nazi regime. Beginning with a discussion of the roots of the conservation movement in Germany in the late nineteenth century, explores the movement's adoption of racist and nationalist language in the 1920s, and its eventual cooperation with the Nazi regime. Discusses the aftermath of World War II, and the process of conservationists' coming to terms with their Nazi alliances. Explores the implications of this history for environmentalists of the twenty-first century.

Whitley, Colleen, ed. From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. xiv + 506 pp. Tables, maps, figures, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Collection of essays surveying the history of Utah's mining industry, examining geology, economic history, labor history, and folklore as well as the development of materials such as coal, salines, and uranium. Primarily mid- nineteenth through twentieth centuries.

Wood, J. David. Places of Last Resort: The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910–1940. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. xviii + 244 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the last significant expansion of farm settlement into Canada's boreal forests in the early twentieth century, documenting the demographics of and challenges faced by settlers.

Wuerthner, George, ed. The Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Washington: Island Press, 2006. xvi + 429 pp. Notes, index. Collection of essays 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. Smaller, paperback edition of Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, also published in 2006.

Wynn, Graeme. Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History. Nature and Human Societies Series. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007. xxiii + 503 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Broad study of the complex relationship between nature and society in Canada and the North American Arctic. Examines the positive and negative environmental effects of human activities in the region, including mining, logging, oil drilling, prospecting, and hunting. Considers the role of climate change in evaluating the past and future of the region's environment.

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