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Biblioscope


An Archival Guide & Bibliograpy

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://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/ehbiblio.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

Andersen, Lykke E., et al. The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxi + 259 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. Cloth $60.00. Using economic and ecological data, the authors analyze the dynamics of land use change in the Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996 and theorize about the probable economic impacts of land clearing and road building in the future.
Anderson, Larry. Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 452 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $45.00. Examines the life of American conservationist and regional planner Benton MacKaye (1879–1975) and his involvement in the creation of the Appalachian Trail.

Ausband, Stephen C. Byrd's Line: A Natural History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. ix + 187 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $22.95. Perceptions of the natural and cultural features of North Carolina and Virginia recorded by American author William Byrd (1674–1744).
Belshaw, John Douglas. Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xv + 320 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. Covers topics such as working conditions, wages, racism, labor organization, gender, schooling, leisure, and community building among British coal miners of Vancouver Island in British Columbia during the nineteenth century.
Brisbin, Richard A. A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989–1990. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 350 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Analyzes the coal miners' strike against Pittston Coal Company, which spread throughout southwestern Virginia, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky.
Brunner, Ronald D., et al., eds. Finding Common Ground: Governance and Natural Resources in the American West. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. xiii + 303 pp. Maps, notes, index. Paper $18.00. Collection of essays on the successes and failures: of initiatives in water management in the Upper Clark Fork River in Montana; wolf recovery in the northern Rocky Mountains; bison management in Yellowstone National Park; and forest policy in northern California. Late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Buchanan, Minor Ferris. Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear. Jackson, Miss.: Centennial Press, 2002. xv + 256 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliographical references, index. Biography of African-American bear hunter and guide Holt Collier (b.1846), who captured a black bear for President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and generated the Teddy Bear phenomenon.
Christensen, Bonnie. Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xiii + 312 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Reviews the history of Red Lodge, a coal mining town in Montana. From the 1880s to the 1990s.
Colpitts, George. Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 2002. x + 205 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. The author examines the ways in which attitudes toward wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs. Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Corneli, Helen McGavran. Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The lives of Naturalists Frederick & Frances Hamerstrom. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xvi + 347 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. Biographies of conservationists and naturalists Frederick Hamerstrom (1909–1990) and his wife Frances (1907–1998), who are renowned for their work with prairie chickens and other wildlife in Wisconsin.
Cox, John. Storm Watchers: The Turbulent History of Weather Prediction from Franklin's Kite to El Niño. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 252 pp. Bibliography, index. Reviews the evolution of weather forecasting and the contributions of pioneer scientists to the field of meteorology from ancient times through the 1990s.
Crowe, William S. Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 50th anniversary edition. Edited by Lynn McGlothlin Emerick and Ann McGlothlin Weller. Skandia, Mich.: North Country Publishing, 2002. v + 132 pp. Illustrations, map, notes. Paper $19.95. The author, William Scott Crowe (1875–1965), reminisces about his experience lumbering in the Manistique Region of Michigan during the 1890s and 1900s.
Delcourt, Hazel R. Forests in Peril: Tracking Deciduous Trees From Ice-Age Refuges Into the Greenhouse World. Blacksburg, Va.: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, 2002. vi + 234 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Paper $22.95. Includes discussions on the role of deciduous forests, and the ecological impact of climate change and Native American activities in eastern Canada and the United States. From ancient times through the twentieth century.
Ehrlich, Tracy L. Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press in association with the American Academy in Rome, 2002. xix + 422 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. Analyses Villa Mondragone, built by Pope Paul V Borghese (1552–1621), in an effort to demonstrate how architecture, landscape and rituals of villa life were used to forge a new identity as a Roman noble house.
Ely, Christopher David. This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. xi + 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $42.00. Investigates the ways in which artistic and literary representations of the landscape shaped national identity in nineteenth-century Russia.
Goodman, Audrey. Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxix + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Explores the invention, translation, and representation of the Southwest landscape in American literature and photography from 1880 through the early twentieth century.
Gruenwald, Kim Marie. River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790–1850. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvi + 214 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95. Includes discussions on the economic role of the Ohio River to the Ohio Valley.
Hall, G. Emlen. High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River. First edition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xii + 291 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Discusses the litigation between Texas and New Mexico over water rights on the Pecos River. Twentieth century.
Haycox, Stephen W. Alaska: An American Colony. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xv + 372 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95. Includes discussions on the development of the oil industry, and the impact of the gold rush on Native populations and the environment in Alaska during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Hutchings, Kevin Douglas. Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xiv + 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00. Investigates English poet William Blake's (1757–1827) concern for the relationship between nature and ideology in his work.
Jones, Karen. Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. x + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.95. Examines environmental ideals, park policies, attitudes toward wolves, and wolf activities in Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, Banff National Park, and Jasper National Park during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Jones, Susan D. Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00. Investigates changes in human-animal relationships and their impact on the development of veterinary medicine in the United States during the twentieth century.
Josephson, Paul R. Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002. vii + 311 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth $25.00. Studies the environmental impacts of dams, logging roads, mining, nuclear power plants and other technological innovations around the world during the twentieth century.
Kohlhoff, Dean. Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. x + 166 pp. Maps, notes, index. Examines the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons testing in Amchitka Island on the local wildlife refuge system. From the 1950s through the 1970s.
Koontz, Tomas M. Federalism in the Forest: National Versus State Natural Resource Policy. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002. xv + 232 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Compares federal and state forest management policies in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Midwest in the 1990s. Covers topics such as environmental protection, citizen participation, and timber sales.
Mannion, Antoinette M. Dynamic World: Land-Cover and Land-Use Change. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002. vii + 230 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Examines the impacts of agriculture, urban growth, waste disposal, war, terrorism, and tourism on land cover and utilization from ancient times through the twentieth century.
Marshall, Suzanne. 'Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water': Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xx + 343 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00. Investigates the activities of the Rome Environmental Preservation Association in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee; the role of activists and organizations in protecting the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Georgia; and the origins and organizing efforts of a group in Cleburne County, Alabama, to halt strip mining planned for the Terrapin Creek watershed. From the 1970s through the 1990s.
McMartin, Barbara. Perspectives on the Adirondacks: A Thirty-Year Struggle by People Protecting Their Treasure. First edition. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xiv + 388 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. Discusses the formation and activities of the Adirondack Park Agency; the development of the Commission on the Adirondacks in the 21st Century; and the opposition of environmental groups to governmental regulations in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. From the 1970s through the 1990s.
Metcalf, Paul C. Waters of Potowmack. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. xix + 246 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. Paper $17.95. Reviews accounts of the Potomac River from the seventeenth century through the 1960s. Covers topics such as geography, geology, flora and fauna, climate, river pollution, and water transportation in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Minchin, Timothy J. Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism During the BASF Lockout. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xii + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00. Investigates the labor dispute between the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union and Badische Anilin & Soda-Fabrik in Geismar, Louisiana, from 1984 to 1989. The dispute was resolved after the union joined environmental groups and raised concerns about possible links between plant emissions and residents' health problems.
Montrie, Chad. To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xv + 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $18.95. Discusses popular opposition to coal surface mining in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama over the course of the twentieth century. Includes discussion of the natural and social history of the area.
Moran, Joseph M., and Edward J. Hopkins. Wisconsin's Weather and Climate. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xviii + 321 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Investigates meteorological phenomena that affect climate; the evolution of methods of weather observation and forecasting; and climate changes in Wisconsin. From ancient times through the twentieth century.
Nasatir, Abraham Phineas, ed. Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785–1804. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xxv + 854 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. Using documents such as diaries, correspondence, and fur trade documents, the author reviews the history of the exploration of the Missouri River prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Pisani, Donald J. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 394 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. Studies the reclamation and cultivation of unusable land in the western United States by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Pratt, Joseph A., William H. Becker, and William M. McClenahan. Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council. First edition. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xvii + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Reviews the activities of the National Petroleum Council and its environmental and energy policies for the petroleum and gas industries. United States. From the 1940s through 2001.
Preece, Rod. Awe For the Tiger, Love For the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 2002. xvii + 413 pp. Notes, index. Cloth $85.00. Studies compassionate and respectful attitudes toward animals as reflected in myth, religion, poetry, philosophy, and literature. From ancient times to the early twentieth century.
Price-Smith, Andrew T. The Health of Nations: Infectious Disease, Environmental Change, and their Effects on National Security and Development. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. viii + 220 pp. Notes, index. Analyzes the impacts of infectious diseases on nations' economy and political stability, and the effects of global environmental change on the spread of diseases around the world. Twentieth century.
Quinn, Thomas Paul. Public Lands and Private Recreation Enterprise: Policy Issues from a Historical Perspective. [Portland, Or.] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2002. 31 pp. Notes, bibliography. Examines the ways in which the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service influenced the role of recreation enterprises on public lands in the United States. From 1870 through 2000.
Reynolds, Julius M. Sunrise on the Santee: A Memoir of Waterfowling in South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 224 pp. Illustrations. The author, Julius M. Reynolds (b.1933), reminisces about duck hunting and fishing on the Santee lakes of South Carolina.
Sallares, Robert. Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 341 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00. Investigates the evolution and ecology of malaria, as well as its medical, social, economic and demographic impacts in Italy.

Sayre, Nathan Freeman. Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xlvii + 278 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Discusses the conversion of the Buenos Aires Ranch into the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona in order to protect the masked bobwhite quail. From the 1870s through the 1990s.
Seaman, Frances Boone. Nehasane Fire Observer: An Adirondack Woman's Summer of '42. Utica, N.Y.: N.K. Burns, 2002. xvi + 92 pp. Illustrations, map. The author reminisces about her experience as a fire observer in the Nehasane Park, New York State.
Silver, Timothy. Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxii + 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper $19.95. Reviews the geological history and environmental conditions of Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains in North Carolina. Includes discussions on logging, forest conservation, wildlife management, and human impact on the mountains. From the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.
Wadley, Jeff, and Dwight McCarter. Mayday! Mayday!: Aircraft Crashes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1920–2000. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. xx + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $15.95. Reviews search and rescue operations, and aircraft accidents.
Weyeneth, Robert R. Kapi'olani Park: A History. Honolulu, Hawaii: Kapiolani Park Preservation Society, 2002. 160 pp. Illustrations. Reviews the origins and uses of this public park in Honolulu, Hawaii, from 1876 to 2001. The park included over the years a race track, landscape carriage roads, a zoo, and athletic facilities.
Williams, Michael. Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxvi + 689 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $70.00. The author studies the impact of land clearing for agriculture; prescribed burning for gathering and hunting; and other activities around the world. Also discusses the impact of deforestation on man and the environment. From ancient times through the twentieth century.
Wilton, Andrew, and T. J. Barringer. American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. 284 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Discusses the concept of the Sublime in artistic representations of the American landscape, and examines the work of various landscape painters. Contains an illustrated catalogue of paintings included in an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, 21 February-19 May 2002.
Worthy, T. H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xxxiii + 718 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $89.95. Studies the natural history of moas (ostrichlike flightless birds native to New Zealand), their biology, ecology, relationships, and extinction.

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