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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY (FHS) maintains an extensive database of annotated citations 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 database each quarter. The library indexes all entries in the database by topic, time period, and geographical area. Library staff will gladly provide additional information about specific items you see in this section or information on other topics from the database. 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, the Environmental History Bibliography, is searchable online at http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/biblio.

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.

The Forest History Society is pleased to announce an important milestone: the Environmental History Bibliography database has reached 40,000 entries! See announcement on page 743.

BOOKS

Agnoletti, Mauro, ed. The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes. Oxford: CAB International, 2006. xix + 267 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, maps, index. Essays presenting methods for analyzing, restoring and managing cultural landscapes, which call for the potential revision of past policies and orientations. Authors provide case studies from Europe and North America, primarily focusing on the eighteenth through twentieth centuries.

Barnett, Cynthia. Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U. S. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth. Combining investigative journalism and environmental history, argues that the eastern half of the United States, particularly the state of Florida, faces fresh-water shortages and conflicts once considered unique to the American West. Includes chapters on the history of water resources in Florida from the nineteenth century, the bottled water industry, water politics and economics, the draining of wetlands, and the Everglades restoration project.

Barrera-Osorio, Antonio. Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xi + 211 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Examines Spain's colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century and its impact on the early scientific revolution. Describes how the Spanish search for information about the colonies contributed to the development of empirical scientific practices.

Biersack, Aletta, and James B. Greenberg, eds. Reimagining Political Ecology. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xix + 419 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, maps, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Collection of ethnographies from a political ecology perspective, with particular attention to the influence of poststructuralism, feminism, and cultural theory on anthropology. Essays include critiques of modernist ecology and case studies of the relationships between humans, politics, and nature as they intersect in various cultures.

Biro, Andrew. Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiii + 250 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Proposes an environmental political theory based on humans' alienation from nature. Explores historical conceptions of nature, and traces the history and development of the concept of alienation from nature, discussing the theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse (eighteenth through twentieth centuries).

Brüggemeier, Franz-Josef, Mark Cioc, and Thomas Zeller, eds. How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment and Nation in the Third Reich. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 283 pp. Bibliography, index. Collection of essays analyzing the environmental policies of Germany's Nazi regime in and around the 1930s. Authors discuss conservationist measures taken by the Third Reich and the extent to which the Nazi Party was embraced by German environmentalists during the party's rise. Essay topics include the Nature Protection Law of 1935, National Socialist Forest Policy, air pollution control, and landscape planning.

Caffey, David L. Frank Springer and New Mexico: From the Colfax County War to the Emergence of Modern Santa Fe. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2006. xvii + 261 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Biography of Frank Springer (1848–1927), attorney, newspaperman, and paleontologist, highlighting the intersections of his life with the history and development of New Mexico. Describes Springer's career as president of the Maxwell Land Grant Company; his influence on mining, logging, and ranching endeavors; and his involvement in the Colfax County War in 1875.

Cassidy, Victor M. Henry Chandler Cowles: Pioneer Ecologist. Chicago: Sigel Press, 2007. vii + 354 pp. Illustrations, index. Biography of renowned nineteenth-century ecologist, botanist, conservationist and University of Chicago professor Henry Chandler Cowles (1868–1939). Includes excerpts of Cowles' journals and previously unpublished personal and expedition photographs.

Chew, Sing C. The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Change, and System Transformation. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007. xviii + 293 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. $34.95 paper. Analyzes recurring human and environmental crises in world history identified as "Dark Ages." Reviews the history of structural conditions and processes that define the nature-culture relationship, shedding light on current environmental crises. Second in a three-volume series on ecological degradation seeking to understand system crisis and transformation from a world system history perspective.

Conkin, Paul K. The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xii + 308 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, index. $32.00 cloth. Explores the environmental consequences of scientific and technological advancement in the twentieth century, assessing the challenges humans face at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Author devotes a chapter to each of the earth's major environmental issues—including population growth, pollution, ozone depletion, species extinction, and climate change—providing historical context, analysis of the current situation, and projections for each issue.

Dallmeyer, Dorinda, ed. Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xvi + 153 pp. Bibliography. $16.95 paper. Collection of prose and poetry by twentieth-early twenty-first century nature writers dealing with the human relationship to landscape and wildness in the American South.

Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. xix + 357 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Traces the history of Earth's climate over billions of years, as well as the history of human impact on the climate. Suggests possible future consequences of global climate change, and proposes steps that may alleviate such changes and prevent future catastrophes.

Freyfogle, Eric T. Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope. Culture of the Land Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 183 pp. Index. $30.00, cloth. Discusses the ecological and aesthetic decline of the American landscape, and presents a course of corrective action based upon the adoption of sound cultural values and principles of ecology. Draws upon the works of American writers such as Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain, 1997) and Wendell Berry (1934- ). Offers a critique of American environmental activism, asserting that it tends to address symptoms rather than the origins of problems. Advocates for a balance between culture and nature, and the need for a national environmental leader.

Fritsch, Al, and Paul Gallimore. Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living through Appropriate Technology. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xvi + 435 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, index. $35.00 paper. Offers thirty examples of low-cost, environmentally friendly technology, examining the definition and origin of each, its application to the Appalachian region of the United States, and the best methods for implementation. Examples include microhydropower, edible landscaping, wood heating, composting toilets, regional heritage plants, and traditional food preservation techniques.

Gerhold, Henry D. A Forester's Legacy: The Life of Joseph E. Ibberson: Forester, Tree Farmer, Philanthropist. Mechanicsburg, PA: Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Stackpole Books, 2007. viii + 200 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Biography of Pennsylvania forester Joseph E. Ibberson (1917- ), highlighting his work beginning in the 1940s with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry modernizing forestland management and preservation, and his philanthropic work later in life, donating large properties as conservation areas and endowing forestry professorships.

Goebel, Allison. Gender and Land Reform: The Zimbabwe Experience. Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. x + 178 pp. Figure, table, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper. Assesses Zimbabwe's failures and successes in incorporating women's issues and gender relations into its larger project of land redistribution, examining social forces and effects of the resettlement process. Based on fieldwork in the Sengezi resettlement area in the late 1990s and 2002.

Goldman, Michael. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xxiv + 360 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Critiques the power of the World Bank, with particular attention to its social justice, environmental, and economic ideologies. Traces the institution's history from the 1940s to the 2000s, examining its rapid expansion in the 1960s. Drawing on World Bank project site visits and interviews with Bank employees, argues that World Bank policies often intensify problems they seek to eliminate. Discusses anti-globalization activists' attempts to shut down the Bank, and speculates on the likelihood of their success.

Goncharov, Kathleen. The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice. Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2005. 69 pp. Illustrations. Exhibition catalog of The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice, an art exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, October 2, 2005 - January 13, 2006, which explored pressing environmental and ecological issues including global warming and deforestation. Includes photographs of works of art depicting forests and related themes.

Grunwald, Michael. The Swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 450 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Traces the history of the Everglades in Florida in three parts. The first is a natural and cultural history, beginning 300 million years ago and continuing through the area's first human inhabitants, the arrival of European settlers in the sixteenth century, and the American effort to remove the Seminole Indians in the nineteenth century. Part two describes a long era marked by human destruction of the Everglades, beginning with early schemes to drain it in the 1880s, the large-scale hunting of indigenous birds around the turn of the twentieth century, the land boom in the 1920s, and post-World War II efforts to develop the region. Part three examines attempts to restore the Everglades, including the Green Revolution in the 1960s and legislation enacted during the presidency of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and concludes with speculation about the area's future following the early years of the twenty-first century.

Harkin, Michael E., and David Rich Lewis, eds. Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxxiv + 367 pp. Tables, figures, bibliographies, index . $24.95 paper. Collection of essays on historical and contemporary themes related to debate about the notion of the "ecological Indian." Topics include the political implications of employing this stereotype, representations of Indians and animals in literature and museums, issues in Native resource management, and traditional ecological knowledge.

Hays, Samuel P. Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xv + 277 pp. Notes, index. Examines conflicts over forest preservation in America since the Forest Management Act of 1897, highlighting tension between what the author calls "ecological forestry" and "commodity forestry." Includes the roles of the wood products industry, the U.S. Forest Service, and the many grassroots and scientific organizations that have emerged to combat the lumber industry and other special interest groups.

Hornborg, Alf, and Carole Crumley, eds. The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007. xii + 395 pp. Tables, figures, maps, bibliography, index. $34.95 paper. Collection of essays proposing new frameworks for studying social and ecological systems. Interdisciplinary contributors including anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, geologists, paleo-scientists and historians explore the evolution of thinking about the interactions of human culture, economy, demography, ecology, and climate change. Covers ancient through modern periods.

Johnson, Jim W. Rivers Under Siege: The Troubled Saga of West Tennessee's Wetlands. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xiii + 239 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Describes the environmental degradation of streams and wetlands in West Tennessee from the nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Discusses the ecological characteristics of the Wolf, Loosahatchie, Hatchie, Obion, and Forked Deer watersheds, and traces the histories of human exploitation and abuse of each.

Johnson, Michael L. Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvii + 533 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95 cloth. Cultural and historical synthesis of how ideas about wildness have shaped Euro-American perceptions of, reactions to, and activities in the American West from the 1530s through the early twenty-first century. Includes a brief introduction to the pre-human West.

Karlsdóttir, Hrefna. Fishing on Common Grounds: The Consequences of Unregulated Fisheries of North Sea Herring in the Postwar Period. Göteborg, Sweden: Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, 2005. 221 pp. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography. Explores issues and legislation related to the management of open-sea fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic during the post-World War II period. Focuses in particular on North Sea herring fisheries from 1947 to 1977 and the establishment of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission.

Klett, Mark, Philip L. Fradkin, and Rebecca Solnit. After the Ruins: 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Berkeley and L0s Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. 134 pp. Illustrations, map. $24.95 paper. Examines changes in San Francisco, California's urban landscape since the earthquake and fires of 1906. Pairs scenes depicted in historic photographs taken immediately following the earthquake with photos of the same locations by Mark Klett, taken in the 2000s. Includes an essay on the disaster and its consequences by environmental historian Fradkin and a lyrical essay on the meaning of ruins and resurrection by Solnit.

Klett, Mark, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron Wolfe. Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2005. xiv + 140 pp. Illustrations. Contains original, iconic photos and panoramas of Yosemite National Park taken in the mid nineteenth-early twentieth centuries together with rephotographs of the same sites made by Klett and Byron in the 2000s. With three essays by critic Solnit, reconsiders the status of Yosemite in the American concept of wilderness and its definition by early visitors.

Knobloch, Frieda E. Botanical Companions: A Memoir of Plants and Place. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. xii + 182 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $24.95 cloth. Exploration of the lives of Rocky Mountain botanists Aven Nelson (1859–1952) and Rugh Ashton Nelson (1896–1987), blended with the author's own life as a scholar and naturalist. Combines scholarship with literary nonfiction in the form of "environmental auto/biography."

Koch, Peter, and June Cooper Price. Exploring the Big Bend Country. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xiii + 175 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Compiles and discusses the work of Peter Koch, a photographer and naturalist who began documenting Texas' Big Bend National Park in the 1940s. Through Koch's photographs, journal entries, and newspaper articles, presents a natural history of the Big Bend region.

Layman, William D. River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia. Wenatchee, WA, Seattle and Vancouver: Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, University of Washington Press, and UBC Press, 2006. xv + 150 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Using photographs and the writings of explorers, surveyors, naturalists, and poets, documents the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwestern United States before the construction of the first hydroelectric dam in the 1930s. Describes the natural history of the river as well as its connections to the region's human inhabitants. Includes illustrations of the river's native fish species, listing their dimensions and geographical ranges.

Linden, Eugene. The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. x + 302 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, index. Discusses climate change as it has historically interacted with human cultures, beginning in the eleventh century, suggesting that civilizations prosper during times of good weather and collapse as a result of climate change. Examines this pattern in light of recent climate catastrophes, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and explores the historical role of El Niños in natural disasters. Speculates on the impacts of global climate change.

Lipin, Lawrence M. Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xv + 213 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, index. $25.00 paper. Examines the changing attitudes of organized labor towards natural resources in early twentieth-century Oregon. Argues that after World War I, union activists shifted from "producerist" thinking, which viewed nature preserves as elitist, to a "consumerist" outlook which said that resources should be protected and made available for public use.

Lovett, Laura L. Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xi + 236 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper. Examines late nineteenth-early twentieth-century American reforms dedicated to the promotion of human reproduction, which the author argues tended to romanticize agrarianism and promote scientific racism and eugenics. Focuses on the ideologies of five influential figures: Mary Lease's maternalism; Florence Sherbon's eugenic campaign; George Maxwell's "homecroft" movement; Edward Ross's theory of race suicide and social control; and Theodore Roosevelt's campaign to conserve natural resources and country life as a means of preserving the white race.

McGurty, Eileen. Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xi + 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, notes, index. $44.95 cloth. Describes the efforts of residents of Warren County, North Carolina—a predominantly African American community—to block the construction of a landfill for PCB-contaminated soil, 1978–1982. Discusses the role of this movement as a model for future struggles against environmental racism across the United States, and its influence on contemporary environmentalism.

Miller, Char. Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture. Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 2007. vii + 182 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $19.95 cloth. Collection of essays on the relationship between culture and conservation, forestry, and land management in the United States, covering the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries. Analyzes the roles of important figures like Bernhard Fernow, Gifford Pinchot, Charles Sargent, and John Muir; the history and current state of forestry education; contested policy issues, e.g., the U.S. Forest Service's handling of grazing on public rangelands; and representations of nature in photography and film.

Montgomery, David R. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ix + 285 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth. Cultural and natural history of soil, tracing the role of soil use and misuse in Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece and Rome, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the United States West. Explores the relationships between soil and societies, argues that soil is earth's most essential natural resource, on which the fate of human civilization rests.

Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental bbbbsthetics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. viii + 249 pp. Notes, index. $49.95 cloth. Explores representations of nature in eighteenth- through twentieth-century literature, philosophy, culture, and arts, asserting the value of art for imagining future environmental conditions. Focuses especially on Romantic English literature. Argues that many images of nature impede truly ecological ways of living and create unrealistic expectations.

Murchison, Kenneth M. The Snail Darter Case: TVA versus the Endangered Species Act. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii + 234 pp. Bibliography, index. $15.95 paper. History of the 1978 Supreme Court case TVA v. Hill; a decision that affirmed a prohibition of the Tennessee Valley Authority's completion of the Tellico Dam, which would have destroyed the only known habitat of the endangered snail darter fish. The case was the first Supreme Court decision to interpret the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Murphy, Priscilla Coit. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. xvi + 254 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Discusses the publication of Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and its impact on Carson, her editor and publishers, the media, and the American public. Examines the history of the book's various editions, and efforts by the chemical industry to interfere with its publication.

Myers, Jeffrey. Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. 188 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Examines works of American literature from the nineteenth century in order to gain a perspective on the era's racism and environmental destruction. Uses this literary critique to suggest that American racism and alienation from nature stem from a common source. Critiques works by Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans.

Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvii + 321 pp. Illustrations, figures, index. $22.50 paper. Explores how various populations in the British colonies viewed and represented the natural world in the late sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Relying largely on correspondence, argues that scientific knowledge about America grew from a "horizontal" exchange of information across the Atlantic—that contributions from nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans were all considered valuable in the development of knowledge.

Parrotta, John, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann, eds. Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume I. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006. 217 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, references. Collects papers presented at the June 2006 conference; Volume I includes the Keynote Presentations and covers four of nine themes: 1) History of Traditional Forest Knowledge and Forest Management; 2) Conflicts Between Traditional Forest Knowledge and Scientific Forestry; 3) Conservation of Cultural Landscapes; and 4) European Initiatives for Traditional Forest Knowledge and Cultural Landscapes. Available online at http://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/traditional-forest-knowledge/publications/.

Parrotta, John, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann, eds. Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006. 217 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, references. Collects papers presented at the June 2006 conference; Volume II covers last five of nine themes: 5) Forest History and Landscape Changes; 6) Traditions, Culture and Landscape in Sustainable Forest Management; 7) Conservation of Traditional Forest Knowledge; 8) Planning and Monitoring for Conservation; and 9) Culture and Traditional Knowledge. Also includes Poster Sessions and a Study Tour. Available online at http://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/traditional-forest-knowledge/publications/

Pascoe, Judith. The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 222 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Discusses the act of collecting as a phenomenon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, asserting that the romantic literary movement supported the collecting craze by elevating the connections between art, spiritual desire, and material objects. Explores the effects of romantic aesthetics on the practice of collecting, particularly of birds, books, Napoleanic relics, botanical specimens, and fossils.

Phillips, Sarah T. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 289 pp. Maps, illustrations, index. $23.99 paper. Examines U.S. policymakers' views of rural poverty and how they affected responses to the Great Depression of the 1930s-1940s. Argues that New Dealers sought to rehabilitate rural life with measures tied directly to conservation goals, including flood control, forest restoration, soil conservation, hydropower, and rural electrification, because they believed that equitable and sustainable distribution of natural resources would lead to economic balance.

Rosen, Arlene Miller. Civilizing Climate: The Social Impact of Climate Change in the Ancient Near East. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 207 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Case studies from the ancient Near East illustrating the effects of climate change on society, culture, and politics. Includes studies from the Neolithic, Early Bronze, and Roman/Byzantine eras.

Ross, Ken. Pioneering Conservation in Alaska. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xxiv + 540 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Examination of the key land and wildlife issues and the spread of environmental conservationism in Alaska primarily during its Russian and territorial eras (eighteenth through twentieth centuries). Explores the state's history of natural resource exploitation by fur traders, oilmen, whalers, gold miners, and others; the roles of prominent naturalists, including John Muir, in the Alaskan conservation movement; and the use of the state as a "testing ground" for U.S. natural resource policy.

Rowntree, Lester. Hardy Californians: A Woman's Life with Native Plants. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xxxii + 308 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper. Updated and expanded edition of the 1936 book by botanist and adventurer Lester Rowntree (1879–1979), chronicling her explorations of California's flora, climate, and geography and arguing for their protection. Edited by Rowntree's granddaughter, the new edition includes a new biographical essay, new photos, and a contextual essay by native plant horticulturalist Judith Lowry.

Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. 311 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Follows the path taken by trash after its disposal, examining it from scientific, cultural, economic, and environmental perspectives. Discusses the history of garbage and its disposal in the United States, from the late nineteenth century.

Schoenbaum, Thomas J. The New River Controversy: A New Edition. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies Series, No. 15. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007. ix + 202 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 paper. Updated edition of the 1979 original, covering the grassroots movement to save North Carolina's New River from damming in the 1970s, which became a prominent success story of the U.S. environmental movement. Includes a new epilogue by R. Seth Woodard examining the river's current ecological status and the ongoing effects of conservation efforts.

Smith, Kimberly K. African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. × + 257 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Examines perspectives on nature in African American intellectual history, from environmental critiques of slave agriculture in the early nineteenth century through twentieth century urban reform, arguing that the late twentieth-early 21st century environmental justice movement is rooted in earlier black political thought. Focuses on the importance of freedom in the human relationship to nature, examining the works of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, and others.

Staples, Amy L. S. The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945–1965. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006. xvi + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Examines the history and development of economic globalization, focusing on three international organizations: the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Health Organization. Drawing on archival research, traces the history of these institutions and the internationalist ideology that enabled their creation, from 1945 to 1965.

Steele, James. Ecological Architecture: A Critical History. London: Thames & Hudson, 2005. 272 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Traces the history of ecological approaches to architecture, beginning in the late 1800s, and speculates on their future. Discusses the unifying characteristics of ecological architecture, including energy efficiency and harmonious relationships between buildings and the natural environment. Includes case studies of various architects and movements.

Sternberg, Mary Ann. Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007. xiii + 158 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes. $19.95 cloth. Cultural and natural history of Louisiana's Bayou Manchac from its early inhabitants in 250 B.C. through the 2000s. Describes the region's settlement by the French, British, and Spanish, and the effects of economic development on the bayou.

Stewart, Paul D. Galápagos: The Islands that Changed the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 240 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. Scientific and cultural overview of the Galápagos Islands. Describes the natural history of the islands' formation in geological terms; traces the history of humans on the islands, 1535–1958, including pirates, whalers, and castaways; discusses the islands' native plant and animal species; and provides a guide for visiting tourists. Devotes particular attention to the relationship between the Galápagos Islands and Charles Darwin.

Taylor, David A. Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant that Captivated the World. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006. 308 pp. Bibliography, index. Anecdotal history of the ginseng business and ginseng hunters over several centuries. Includes poaching stories; varying views of the supply chain from ginseng farmers, buyers, and retailers in the United States and China; and discussions of the medicinal benefits attributed to the herb.

Terrill, Ceiridwen. Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. xx + 220 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $17.95 paper. Draws upon field research and interviews to provide a scientific and historical account of invasive species in the southwestern United States.

Tropp, Jacob A. Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xiv + 268 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Analyzes the Transkei region of South Africa, with particular attention to the colonial origins of environmental issues in the region. Discusses the economic and ecological effects of apartheid on the Transkei from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century.

Walton, John K., ed. Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity, and Conflict. Clevedon, UK: Channel View Publications, 2005. viii + 244 pp. Collection of essays exploring the history of tourism in various international locations and time periods, including nineteenth-twentieth century Britain, Nazi Germany, Ancient Rome, and Victorian-era Japan. Drawing on archival research, essays examine historical aspects of tourism and its relationships with cultural identity, social dynamics, and the natural environment.

Watson, Robert N. Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 436 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Draws connections between ecology, epistemology, and empiricism during the late Renaissance period, arguing that the era's major trends toward urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, and empirical science contributed to alienation from the natural environment. Critiques Renaissance art and literature to support this argument.

Wheelis, Mark, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando, eds. Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xi + 479 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Discusses the threat posed by biological weapons from 1945 to the 2000s. Addresses the history of biological weapons and state-sponsored biological weapons programs in countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, the USSR, Iraq, and South Africa.

Williams, Gerald R. The Forest Service: Fighting for Public Lands. Understanding Our Government Series. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. xvi + 457 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. Inside look at the USDA Forest Service, including its century-long history, structure, function, cooperation with states and other nations, and role in American culture. Chapters trace the agency's history from the late nineteenth century through its 100th anniversary in 2005; outline its three branches and relationships with other federal agencies; identify future issues and challenges facing the agency; and provide selected biographies of prominent people associated with it.

Williams, Jack. East 40 Degrees: An Interpretive Atlas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xv + 248 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, index. Exploration of a chain of small Appalachian mountain towns stretching from central Alabama to coastal Maine. Examines the roles of geography, geology, social and cultural history in the formation of each town's unique character, relying on visual primary sources such as maps, historic photographs, and architectural evidence.

Winch, Martin. Biography of a Place: Passages Through a Central Oregon Meadow. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. x + 294 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Ecological, cultural, and social history of Camp Polk Meadow in Central Oregon, describing how the meadow has changed from the 1850s to the 2000s; detailing its geology, hydrology, and biology; and exploring the impact of Native Americans and European explorers and settlers.

Zontek, Ken. Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi + 249 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper. Account of attempts by Native peoples in the American West to repopulate the Plains with a viable bison population, and the relationship of these attempts to the larger pursuit of Native political and cultural autonomy. Provides a brief history of human interaction with bison from the Paleolithic era through modern preservation efforts.

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