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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.

BOOKS

Alexander, Jocelyn. The Unsettled Land: State-Making and the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe, 1893–2003. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. x + 230 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth. Historical study of land and politics in Zimbabwe, late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries. Argues that unequal division of land during the settler period set the stage for the dramatic land occupation upheavals of the 2000s.

Aronson, James, Suzanne J. Milton, and James N. Blignaut, eds. Restoring Natural Capital: Science, Business, and Practice. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007. xiv + 384 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, maps, bibliography, index. Publication from the Society for Ecological Restoration International, outlining strategies and practical approaches for renewing the natural systems upon which economic development depends.

Bales, Stephen Lyn. Natural Histories: Stories from the Tennessee Valley. Outdoor Tennessee Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xviii + 261 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. Collection of essays by naturalist Bales, each showcasing an animal or plant, linking to the Tennessee Valley area, and related to historical episodes such as the De Soto explorations, Civil War battles, or the Trail of Tears.

Bellanca, Mary Ellen. Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770–1870. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. x + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $22.50 cloth. Explores the role of nature diaries in British literature and science from the late eighteenth through late nineteenth centuries, a period of intensifying knowledge about the natural world. Critically examines the writings of Gilbert White, George Eliot, Emily Shore, and others.

Benidickson, Jamie. The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. 24 + 404 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Social and legal history of sewage and sewage management in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Examines changing policy, perceptions, and uses of water and waterways as tools for waste disposal.

Benson, Keith R., and Helen M. Rozwadowski, eds. Extremes: Oceanography's Adventures at the Poles. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007. xiv + 393 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Collection of essays examining scientific efforts to comprehend the polar regions and oceans, and how past and present encounters with the poles have influenced economics, geopolitics, and culture.

Bergal, Jenni, et al. City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina. Center for Public Integrity Investigation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiii + 168 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.95 cloth. Tracks the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina in 2005, from the time the storm hit New Orleans, Louisiana, through its aftermath and the city's rebuilding efforts. Uses first-person accounts to explore the disaster in the broader context of how local and federal officials prepare for and respond to catastrophic events.

Berkes, Fikret et al., eds. Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. xviii + 396 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, index. Collection of essays discussing renewable resource and ocean management in Canada's Arctic, primarily during the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries. Essays explore the role of Aboriginal people and how policy decisions have been affected by social, technological, and environmental change. Includes DVD entitled "Watching, Listening & Understanding Changes in Environment."

Brubaker, Elizabeth. Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. viii + 153 pp. Notes, index. Traces the centralization of agricultural regulation and the resulting environmental harm in Canada, focusing specifically on the transition from common-law dispute resolution to the development of "right-to-farm" laws that the author argues have made possible unsustainable agricultural intensification. Primarily twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Brugge, Doug, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis, eds. The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xix + 210 pp. Illustrations, tables, index. Traces the cultural, legal, health and biological effects of uranium mining among Navajo communities in the western United States in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Based largely on oral history interviews, the book is a product of the ten-year Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project based at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Bulliet, Richard W. Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 253 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper. Discusses the relationship of humans to wild and domestic animals as it has evolved from prehistoric times. Distinguishes between predomesticity (the period in which humans' lives were not directly involved with animals), domesticity (the period in which most people were involved in the breeding, raising, and slaughtering of animals), and postdomesticity (the period in which most humans are not directly involved in raising animals for human consumption, but still maintain direct contact with animals as pets).

Cohen, Valerie Mendenhall, ed. Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall. Bishop, California: Spotted Dog Press, 2006. 352 pp. Illustrations, index. $18.95 paper. Accounts of the expeditions of one of California's first woman mountain climbers, from the 1930s through the 1980s. Describes climbing peaks in California, Nevada, and Wyoming, as well as in Canada.

Cooper, Alix. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 218 pp. Illustrations, index. Examines growing curiosity about plants and minerals in early modern Europe as a result of exploration (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries), and how this led to the compilation of local inventories of flora, fauna, and regional mineralogies. Provides insight into the history of concepts of indigeneity and local ecological knowledge.

Cordova, Carlos E. Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. xix + 254 pp. Figures, tables, maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Examines changes in the Jordanian landscape and how it has been affected by nature and human habitation over the long term. Focuses on geoarchaeological and cultural ecological research, examining the changing influence of climate, vegetation, hunting, population growth, and agriculture on the culture and environment of Jordan.

Costanza, Robert, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen, eds. Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007. xxii + 495 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, maps, index. $38.00 cloth. Interdisciplinary collection of essays aimed at developing an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales. Topics highlighted include Mayan political ecology, the effects of climate and weather events on societies, and politics and environmental change in the twentieth century. Includes projections for the future of human-environment interaction.

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., Renee K. Gosson, and George B. Handley, eds. Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xii + 303 pp. Bibliography, index. Collection of essays exploring the relationship between nature and culture in the Caribbean as it is portrayed in Caribbean literature, adopting an ecocritical perspective. Organized into four parts: "natural histories," "myths of origins," "hybridity and creolization," and "aesthetics of the earth." Essays deal with broad time periods and geographic areas including Cuba, Haiti, Guyana, Suriname, and Martinique.

Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 477 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Broad and detailed history of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in America, focusing primarily on the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Combines anecdotes, historical facts, and natural information on whales, examining the social, cultural, and economic histories of the industry.

Durrant, Jeffrey O. Struggle Over Utah's San Rafael Swell: Wilderness, National Conservation Areas, and National Monuments. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 2007. 272 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. Review of the debate over management and uses of the San Rafael Swell in Utah, within a wider discussion of public lands, wilderness, and conservation areas. Discusses the roles of environmental organizations and of federal and state agencies.

Elofson, Warren M. Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves: Ranching on the Western Frontier. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xx + 202 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95 paper. History of the ranching industry in western prairie Canada from the 1870s through the beginning of World War I, disputing common perceptions of the Canadian frontier as "tame" and emphasizing the impact of the frontier environment on ranching society.

Franklin, H. Bruce. The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007. 165 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, index. $25.00 cloth. History of the little-known fish menhaden (a.k.a. mossbunker or pogy), a major source of fishmeal and fertilizer. Traces menhaden's importance in American history, from its role in the survival of the earliest settlers and the growth of industrialized fishing, to current environmental battles over its decimation.

Geier, Max G. Necessary Work: Discovering Old Forests, New Outlooks, and Community on the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 1948–2000. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-687. Portland, OR.: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2007. vii + 357 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, index. Study of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon's central Cascade Range, 1948–2000, using oral histories and archival research to explore the inner workings and structure of the forest ecology community at work there (the Andrews Group). Examines the origins of the USDA Forest Service decision to establish the forest, emerging links between long-term research and interdisciplinary science, and how those links shaped the Group's response to concerns about logging in old-growth forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Complete text available online at http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/publications/gtr687/.

Gerhold, Henry D. A Century of Forest Resources Education at Penn State: Serving Our Forests, Waters, Wildlife, and Wood Industries. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xiv + 180 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. History of the Pennsylvania State School of Forest Resources, on the occasion of the centennial of its founding in 1907. Examines events leading up to the school's founding and traces progress in the School's programs, curricula, research, and facilities over the century of its existence. Highlights accomplishments and provides biographical sketches of notable graduates and faculty.

Gianquitto, Tina. "Good Observers of Nature": American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xii + 216 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper. Examination of nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experiences of nature, as well as the linguistic, scientific and perceptual tools available to describe those experiences. Looks at the development of science and changing literary representations of nature in texts by women from the 1820s to the 1880s. Focuses on the works of four writers: Almira Phelps, Margaret Fuller, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Mary Treat.

Grendstad, Gunnar et al. Unique Environmentalism: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Springer, 2006. vii + 190 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Explores the "uniqueness" of Norwegian environmentalism, arguing that it stems from two connected anomalies of community orientation and an inclusive and state-friendly society. Provides a twentieth-century history of organized environmentalism in Norway.

Griffiths, Tom. Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. Sydney, NSW, Australia: University of New South Wales Press, 2007. 399 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 paper. Combines the author's own travel experiences to Antarctica with essays dealing with the continent's exploration history, culture and ecology.

Guidoboni, Emanuela, and Alberto Comastri. Catalogue of Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Area from the 11th to the 15th Century. Bologna: Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica E Vulcanologia, 2005. 1037 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Information, with varying levels of analysis, on earthquakes, tsunamis and their environmental effects in the Mediterranean region, eleventh through fifteenth centuries.

Hageneder, Fred. The Meaning of Trees: Botany, History, Healing, Lore. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. 224 pp. Illustrations, appendices, index. Illustrated profiles of several dozen tree families, genera, or species, including acacia, juniper, elm, banyan, and others. Each profile includes sections on "Practical Uses," "Natural Healing," and "Culture, Myth and Symbol," exploring the tree's significance for humans in a variety of geographic and historical contexts.

Harper, Melissa. The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia. Sydney, NSW: University of New South Wales Press, 2007. xv + 348 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Recreational walking in Australia, from colonial times through the twentieth century, as practiced by explorers, tourists, naturalists, intellectuals, and conservationists. The impact of bushwalking on the social, cultural, and political life of Australia.

Herring, Margaret, and Sarah Greene. Forest of Time: A Century of Science at Wind River Experimental Forest. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. ix + 188 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Follows a century of forest science at the Wind River Experimental Forest in Stabler, Washington. Founded in 1908 by the U.S. Forest Service to study Douglas fir, Wind River soon became a laboratory for studying tree development, old-growth ecosystems, and the connection between forests and atmosphere.

Hillstrom, Kevin, and Laurie Collier Hillstrom, eds. The Industrial Revolution in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005–2007. 9 volumes. Illustrations, maps. Nine-volume series examining the role of industry in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America. Each volume explores a specific industry and includes discussion of origins and technology, societal and environmental impacts, reform movements, labor, and key people, places, terms, and events. Volumes are: Iron and steel; Railroads; Steam shipping; Automobiles; Mining and petroleum; Textiles; Communications; Agriculture and meatpacking; Overview/comparison.

Hochstetler, Kathryn, and Margaret E. Keck. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xviii + 283 pp. Bibliography, index. $23.95 paper. Challenges the belief that environmental awareness was brought into Brazil by outside forces. Discusses environmental movements that have originated within Brazil, including activity within the political system and the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Also studies the relationship of Brazilian environmentalism to transnational environmentalism.

Hodge, Joseph Morgan. Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism. Series in Ecology and History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xiv + 402 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 paper. Examines the evolution of scientific policies in the colonial and postcolonial world, 1895–1960, arguing that late British colonial imperialism was based in science and technology, allowing academics and scientific experts to gain unparalleled authority.

Horton, Lynn R. Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. xvii + 215 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Discusses the implications of sustainable development using examples of three rural communities in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Compares the perceptions of local inhabitants with those of international financial institutions. Discusses the relationship of sustainability to environmental protection and to political and social empowerment.

Houston Wilderness. Houston Atlas of Biodiversity. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. v + 123 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, index. $23.95 paper. Highlights the variety, cultural importance, and global value of the natural environment found within the Houston Wilderness project area, comprising the Houston metroplex and twenty-four surrounding counties. Focuses on habitats, animal and plant communities, and ecoregions, providing natural and land use histories. Written by a variety of authors associated with the Houston Wilderness consortium.

Hubbard, Mina, and Anne Hart. The Woman who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expeditionary Diaries of Mina Hubbard. Kingston: McGill/Queen's University Press, 2005. xxi + 506 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Diary and biography of explorer Mina Benson Hubbard, the first white woman to cross Labrador in 1905. Provides a daily account of Hubbard's canoe trip, including descriptions of the Labrador wilderness, the great caribou migration, and interactions with Montagnais/Naskapi Indians, providing fodder for exploration of issues of gender, race, class, and perceptions of wilderness at the beginning of the twentieth century. Diary edited by Buchanan and Greene; biography by Hart.

Huxley, Anthony. Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. 192 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Overview of the planet's plant species, emphasizing their value to humans as food, fuel, medicine and decoration, and discussing the threats to their future.

Ingram, Annie Merrill et al., eds. Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. ix + 278 pp. Index $24.95 paper. Collection of essays exploring new directions in ecocritical approaches to literature. Essays include discussions of ecocritical theory and explorations of interdisciplinary connections between the sciences and the humanities; looks at previously under-examined areas including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, and lynching sites.

Jarvis, Kimberly A. Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2007. xvi + 214 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95 paper. Story of the 1928 purchase of 6,000 acres in New Hampshire's White Mountains area of Franconia Notch, thus preserving the land as a forest reserve and protecting it from the incursion of timber companies. Analyzes the critical role of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs in this successful conservation effort, and the involvement of women's clubs with conservation and nature study in general.

Kalof, Linda, and Amy Fitzgerald, eds. The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007. xvi + 386 pp. Illustrations, tables. Compilation of classic and contemporary writings about animals and human-animal relationships from multiple disciplines including philosophy, anthropology, environmental studies, history, and law. Sections examine animals as philosophical and ethical subjects, reflexive thinkers, symbols, pets, spectacle and sport, and scientific objects. Writings date from the fourth century BC up through the 2000s.

Kathirithamby-Wells, Jeyamalar. Nature and Nation: Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. xxxvii + 487 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. History of forestry and forest politics in Peninsular Malaysia from the late eighteenth through twentieth centuries, exploring the relationship between people and forests in a place where a rich ecosystem has collided with rapid economic transformation. Examines history, culture, science, politics and economics in interpreting the relevance of forests to state and society in the tropics.

Kendrick, Baynard, and Barry Walsh. A History of Florida Forests. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xiv + 585 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth. Covers the past five hundred years, discussing ways in which Native Americans, Spanish colonizers, and subsequent populations have viewed and utilized the forest resources of Florida.

Kraus, Scott D., and Rosalind M. Rolland, eds. The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. xviii + 543 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, index. History and current status of North Atlantic right whales, nearly extinct as of 1980 due to commercial hunting. Essays discuss the species' biology, deaths caused by ships and fishing gear, population models, and future prognosis.

Mabey, Richard. Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of The Natural History of Selbourne. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii + 239 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $16.50 paper. First U.S. edition, originally published in 1986. British nature writer Mabey explores the life of Gilbert White (1720–1793), whose Natural History of Selborne, a detailed environmental study of White's eighteenth-century Hampshire, England parish, is one of the most published books in the English language.

Mark, Stephen R. Domain of the Cavemen: A Historic Resource Study of Oregon Caves National Monument. Oakland, CA: National Park Service, Pacific West Region, 2006. xv + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. History of the region surrounding Oregon Caves National Monument from the mid-nineteenth century and its significance for historical resources interpretation at the site.

Martin, C. Brenden. Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-edged Sword. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxi + 246 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $32.00 cloth. Examines how tourism has shaped the landscape, economy, and culture of America's Mountain South from the Civil War era through the 2000s. Argues that while tourism has accelerated modernization in the Appalachian region, it has also provided the main economic rationale for cultural, historical, and environmental preservation.

Matthews, Mark. A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xvi + 264 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. A retelling of the 1949 fire Mann Gulch, Montana, focusing on the thirteen firefighters who were killed. Includes previously unavailable material, including testimony from the three survivors and interviews with friends, family members, and coworkers of the victims.

Melosi, Martin V., and Joseph A. Pratt, eds. Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. vii + 344 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Collection of essays analyzing the environmental impacts of remarkable late nineteenth-twentieth century growth, industrialization, and energy production/consumption in Houston, Texas. Essays address such topics as pollution, climate control, highway construction, deforestation, and environmental justice issues.

Menzies, Nicholas K. Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber: Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xi + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 paper. Explores examples of community-based forest management (CBFM) in China, Zanzibar, Brazil, and India, analyzing how CBFM fits into the broader picture of natural resource management and highlighting conditions that bring about effective practice and equitable stewardship. Late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Mitman, Gregg. Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xv + 312 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $30.00 cloth. History of allergic disease in the United States from the late nineteenth century through the 2000s, examining how the changing environment has contributed to the epidemic growth of allergies. Discusses solutions proposed to combat allergies, from medications to hay fever resorts, and how these have affected economic development and attitudes toward land use. Argues that some attempts to control allergies and asthma have actually exacerbated them.

Murphy, Peter J., et al. A Hard Road to Travel: Lands, Forests and People in the Upper Athabasca Region. Durham, NC, and Hinton, Alberta: Forest History Society and Foothills Model Forest, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. History of forests, forestry, and human interaction with the landscape in the Upper Athabasca Region of Canada, covering three broadly defined eras: the approximately ten thousand years before the arrival of Europeans, during which various peoples passed through the landscape; the period of European influence and fur trading from 1810 until the building of the Grand Trunk Railway; and the era of increased settlement, forest management, and industry after the Railway was in place. Explores the struggle to balance resource use and conservation.

Peña, Devon G. Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra y Vida. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xxxiv + 212 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. $16.95 paper. "Mexican Americans and the Environment: Land and Life." Explores the relationship between ecology and culture in the Mexican American experience, addressing struggles for environmental justice, democracy and sustainability from the perspectives of activists, farm workers, union organizers, landowners, and others. Divided into three primary themes of ecology, history and culture, and politics. Provides an environmental history of Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border from pre-contact through the twentieth century.

Peters, Jason, ed. Wendell Berry: Life and Work. Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiv + 349 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Essays by scholars, activists, and authors exploring the life, work, and impact of celebrated Kentucky nature writer/ farmer/cultural critic Wendell Berry (b. 1934).

Phillips, Doug. Discovering Alabama Forests. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xii + 108 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Illustrated introduction to the ecology, geology, biology, and natural history of Alabama's forests. Evaluates the forests' contributions to the state's economy over time and advocates for wise management and protection in the present and future.

Redclift, Michael R. Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. xi +237 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $23.00 paper. Examines the relationship between nature and society in five contested frontier areas: common-pool resource management in the Spanish Pyrenees, European settlement on the forest frontier of nineteenth-century Canada, land and water conflicts in coastal Ecuador, civil unrest among the Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula, and the encroachment of tourism on the Mexican Caribbean coast. Uses these case studies to argue for a dialectical process in frontier areas in which human societies and the natural environment "co-evolve." Primarily nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Reill, Peter Hanns. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. ix + 388 pp. Notes, index, bibliography. Examines the ways key Enlightenment thinkers viewed nature, arguing that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred that caused many theorists to reject the prevailing doctrine of mechanism and adopt a "vitalistic" model to account for natural phenomena.

Robin, Libby. How a Continent Created a Nation. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007. viii + 259 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 paper. Explores the influence of nature on Australian national identity and scientific thinking since 1901.

Rothman, Hal K. Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ix + 281 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. History of wildfire management in the U.S. National Parks from the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in the 1870s through the early twenty-first century. Explores the evolutions and intersections of NPS policy, politics, public sentiment, and scientific research and their impacts on the landscape.

Sandlos, John. Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. xiii + 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper. Examines late nineteenth-twentieth century conflict between Native hunters and conservationists in Canada's Northwest Territories over three big game species: the wood bison, the muskoxen, and the caribou. Argues that the introduction of wildlife conservation was integral to the assertion of state authority over traditional hunting cultures, and that commercial considerations have played a central role in Canadian wildlife management.

Seddon, George. The Old Country: Australian Landscapes, Plants and People. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii + 270 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Exploration of the relationship of Australians to their unique landscapes in the past and present. Focuses particularly on gardening and the issue of "native" and invasive species.

Shevory, Thomas. Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. x + 280 pp. Figures, notes, index. $19.95 paper. Account of the grassroots activist movement against the WTI hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, 1970s-2000s. Using interviews and official documents, tells the story of the incinerator's construction, maintenance, and opposition by citizens.

Simmons, Alan H. The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East: Transforming the Human Landscape. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. xvii + 338 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Examination of the Neolithic Revolution (the transition from hunting and gathering to food production and permanent settlement) in the Levantine Near East and the island of Cyprus. Argues that the Revolution lacked a single common stimulus and can be observed in a variety of social, economic, and demographic expressions.

Smith, Thomas Ruys. River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007. x + 252 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $38.00 cloth. Explores the role of the Mississippi River in the antebellum culture, literature, art, and life, tracing its shifting importance in American consciousness. Examines accounts of European travelers including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, visual representations, and symbolism in popular literature such as Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man (1857).

Solnit, Rebecca. Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xii + 416 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth. Collection of essays published in the 1990s-2000s by nature writer, environmentalist, anti-globalization activist, and public intellectual Solnit. Explores various aspects of the American landscape, including the politics, culture, and history of the U.S.-Mexico border, environmental injustice, gender and environment, pollution, and urban areas, primarily in the twentieth century.

Solomon, Lawrence. Toronto Sprawls: A History. University of Toronto Centre for Public Management Monograph Series. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2007. xiii + 120 pp. Notes, index. Examines the development of Toronto, Canada from a small nineteenth-century colonial capital to a sprawling giant in the late twentieth century. Argues that Toronto's sprawl problem was caused by government policies designed to disperse the urban population.

Taber, Richard D., and Neil F. Payne. Wildlife, Conservation, and Human Welfare: A United States and Canadian Perspective. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2003. xiii + 218 pp. Index. Provides a history of wildlife populations as they have been affected by human cultures, from the European and North American Stone Age to the early twenty-first century. Proposes that humans will learn from historical failures in wildlife conservation and ultimately succeed in the maintenance of native wild species.

Walker, Richard A. The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. Seattle: University of Washington, 2007. xxviii + 378 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth. Story of how San Francisco, California's Bay Area became a global leader in green ideas and green space preservation. Traces the history of land use and environmental politics in the region from the beginnings of conservation in the late nineteenth century (led by John Muir and the Sierra Club), to battles over bay fill and suburban growth, to the establishment of conservation easements, to the reclamation of the inner city in the 1990s-2000s.

Wellock, Thomas R. Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870–2000. American History Series. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2007. xii + 308 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper. Synthetic study of the American environmental and conservation movements, late nineteenth through twentieth centuries; part of publisher's American History series designed for use in undergraduate and graduate history classes. Argues that the contemporary conservation and environmental movements grew out of American's particular responses to nature, the expansion of global industry, and political modernization.

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