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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY (FHS) maintains an extensive computerized data bank of published sources related to environmental history. The biblioscope section of this journal includes just a selection of the new information that theFHS 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

Anfinson, John O. The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Discusses water engineering projects undertaken to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River since the early nineteenth century. Includes discussion of local politics that shaped such projects and environmental concerns about the effects of water engineering on the river's ecosystem.

Beckey, Fred. Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2003. xvi + 527 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $40.00. History of European and American discovery and exploration of wilderness areas in the northern Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Focuses especially on the nineteenth century. Recounts information about terrain, geographic features, and environmental conditions recorded in the logs, journals, and diaries of explorers, sea captains, mountaineers, trappers, surveyors, fur traders, railroad builders, timber barons, tourists, settlers, prospectors, foresters, and park rangers.

Bonta, Mark. Seven Names for the Bellbird: Conservation Geography in Honduras. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xii + 231 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. $35.00. Argues that indigenous populations have a long tradition of peaceful interaction with and observance of birds native to Honduras. Looks at symbolic reverence for avian species, especially the bellbird, evident in folklore and in customary natural resource utilization practices, which have tended more often than not, in the author's judgment, to promote biodiversity conservation. See especially chapter two, "Historical and Geographical Background," which examines human-avian relationships from the late fifteenth century through the late twentieth century.

Bullard, Mary R. Cumberland Island: A History. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xx + 415 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. History of this island located off the coast of Georgia in the southern United States documenting land use, landscape change, and human impact on the environment from the sixteenth through the late twentieth centuries.

Charlip, Julie A. Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. Ohio University Research in International Studies, Latin America Series No. 39. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Economic history of the coffee growing industry in Carazo, Nicaragua, focusing on the small and medium-sized agricultural operations of coffee farmers during this early boom period.

Chevalier, Jacques M., and Andrés Sanchez Bain. The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xxii + 301 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00. Ethnobotanical study of folk mythology associating healing practices with corn cultivation in the Nahuan culture of Veracruz, Mexico, focusing especially on the Popoluca Indians. Examines the traditional beliefs of such indigenous peoples that shaped perceptions about human relationships with plants, animals, land, and spirits.

Choukas-Bradley, Melanie. Sugarloaf: The Mountain's History, Geology, and Natural Lore. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xiii + 114 pp. Illustrations, notes, suggested reading list, index. Local- and natural-history guidebook to this mountain in Maryland. Includes discussion of land use; nature conservation; flora and fauna; geological features; outdoor recreation opportunities; and settlement in the area, especially since the early eighteenth century.

Davis, Jack E., and Kari Frederickson, eds. Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. viii + 342 pp. Notes, list of contributors, index. Biographical essays on twentieth-century women political activists from Florida. Includes chapters on women who fought for civil rights, women's rights, conservation and environmental protection, improved rural and urban living conditions, and greater political influence for women. See especially chapters in part three, which includes biographical essays on women environmentalists.

Dombeck, Michael P., Christopher A. Wood, and Jack E. Williams. From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003. xvii + 220 pp. Illustrations, map, figures, notes, index. Cloth $40.00, paper $22.50. Overview of public land management in the United States since the eighteenth century, focusing especially on changes in management philosophy that have influenced land use policy. Discusses such issues as land health; conservation of forests, rangelands, rivers, and streams; roadless areas; ecological restoration; and sustainability. Includes brief "focus essays" written by former U.S. Forest Service chief Jack Ward Thomas; American historian Patricia Nelson Limerick; U.S. Geological Survey research ecologists Steve T. Knick and Mark R. Fuller; environmental writer and photographer Tim Palmer; former U.S. secretary of the Interior and governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt; biographer of Aldo Leopold Curt Meine and botanist Nina Leopold Bradley; Oregon State University professor David Perry; National Wildlife Federation president Mark Van Putten; and former Wisconsin governor, U.S. senator, and Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson.

Edlow, Jonathan A. Bull's Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. xviii + 285 pp. Illustrations, references, glossary, index. $29.95. Epidemiological history of lyme disease, a disease with multiple symptoms, one of which is a bull's eye rash, named after the town in Connecticut where a number of individuals' determination to find a diagnosis and treatment for their illness spurred investigation into the disease and the final breakthrough in discovering a tick to be the causative agent in the 1970s and 1980s.

Gordon, Greg. Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah's Canyon Country. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003. xi + 213 pp. Map, tables, bibliography. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95. The author discusses the geologic, natural, and environmental history of Utah's Moab Region and relates details about a university field trip he led through the canyonlands. Topics covered include geology, ecology, economic development, nature conservation, land management, wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, regional identity, natural history, dams, grazing, mining, and other land uses. Although geologic history is discussed, the book focuses mainly on human interaction with the Utah environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Grewell, J. Bishop, Clay J. Landry, and Greg Conko. Ecological Agrarian: Agriculture's First Evolution in 10,000 Years. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2003. ix + 208 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Reviews twentieth-century entrepreneurial efforts to increase agricultural yields while implementing sustainable, ecological, and environmentally friendly methods of production in the United States. Topics covered include: the use of biotechnology to increase agricultural yields; the financial incentives to producers who use production methods that address the environmental concerns of consumers; revenue opportunities for "green" products; recycling of resources; managing resources for multiple uses; and maintaining environmental quality while increasing production yields.

Haglund, Karl. Inventing the Charles River. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, in cooperation with the Charles River Conservancy, 2003. xxi + 493 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Includes a glossary and gazetteer, a chronology of the Charles River Basin from 1630 to 2002, and a list of illustration credits. History of the role of the Charles River in shaping the development of the metropolis centered on Boston, Massachusetts. Topics covered include city planning, river engineering, transportation, and public appreciation for the waterway as a public space.

Kupel, Douglas E. Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona's Urban Environment. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxiv + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $39.95. Contrasts the development, management, and use of municipal water supplies in the Arizona cities of Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff since the early twentieth century, examining the relationship between water development and urban growth. Includes discussion of water law and legislation and of the environmental politics associated with the Central Arizona and Salt River water development projects.

Langston, Nancy. Where Land & Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xiv + 230 pp. Photographs, notes, selected bibliography, index. $26.95. History of land use on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon since its establishment in 1908. Examines the impacts of grazing, flood control measures, wildlife management techniques, and ecological restoration efforts on the environment and resources of the refuge through the present day.

Mazur, Allan. True Warnings and False Alarms About Technology, 1948–1971. Baltimore, Md.: Resources for the Future, 2003. 160 pp. Index. Cloth $50.00, paper $18.95. The author analyzes health warning issued during the 1950s and 1960s about such things as the use of the insecticide DDT, nuclear weapons testing, and fluoridation, among others. Mazur considers the source of the alarms, the extent and type of mass media coverage the warnings received, and the degree to which the general public developed serious concerns about the issues. He concludes by identifying specific characteristics that distinguish between true warnings and false alarms.

Minnis, Paul E., ed. People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003. xvi + 423 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, references, list of contributors, indexes. Paper $34.95. Paleoethnobotanical essays on plant and forest utilization by people living in prehistoric eastern Canada and the United States. Includes essays on the Great Plains and the Caribbean, as well.

Moore, Donald S., Jake Kosek, and Anand Pandian, eds. Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 475 pp. Notes, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Cloth $74.95, paper $24.95. Essays discussing historical associations of race with nature and the resulting impacts on worldwide cultural politics; eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Topics covered include race relations, nationalism, environmental justice, and group identity. See especially chapters five and six in the section titled "Part Two. Landscapes of Purity and Pollution".

Nadeau, Robert L. The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xii + 253 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.50. Argues that the economic theory developed by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith (1723–1790) that guided global economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries failed to consider the environmental impacts of development. The author urges the adoption of an environmentally responsible economic philosophy in the future to avoid ecological disaster.

Nicholas, Liza, Elaine M. Bapis, and Thomas J. Harvey, eds. Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. Paper $24.95. Essays discussing the ways in which history, popular culture, geography, and public policies have influenced the development of a regional identity and lifestyle that is unique to the western United States; nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Nye, David E. America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. x + 371 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Examines popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and other sources that depict European-American settlers' perceptions of the important role played by such technological tools as the axe, sawmill, grist mill, canal, railroad, and dam in shaping their interactions with landscapes, native peoples, nature, and natural resources in the United States; eighteenth through twenty-first centuries. Concludes with an examination of the relation between early "foundation narratives" fostering the idea of human domination over nature and more recent narratives promoting conservation, environmental protection, and the idealization of wilderness.

Phillips, H. Wayne. Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Missoula, Mont. v + 277 pp.: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2003. Photographs, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper $20.00. Color photographs and excerpts from journals recorded by American explorers Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) and William Clark (1770–1838) during their 1804–1806 expedition through the western United States describe the botanical resources of the region as encountered in the early nineteenth century as well as today.

Saunders, Richard L., ed. A Yellowstone Reader: The National Park in Popular Fiction, Folklore, and Verse. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. xv + 309 pp. Bibliography, indexes. Paper $17.95. Collection of fictional literature published from the late-nineteenth century through the 1950s about Yellowstone National Park, which spans parts of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Selections include novelettes, young adult fiction, short stories, fur trapper tales, and serialized publications. An editorial introduction precedes each selection.

Schauffler, F. Marina. Turning to Earth: Stories of Ecological Conversion. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 161 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Work of literary criticism analyzing philosophical representations of nature, natural history, ecology, environmental protection, and natural resource conservation in the writings of American authors Edward Abbey (1927–1989), Rachel Carson (1907–1964), N. Scott Momaday (1934– ), Scott Russell Sanders (1945– ), Alice Walker (1944– ), and Terry Tempest Williams (1955– ). Schauffler focuses on the ways in which such writings have inspired others to live in tune with nature.

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. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95. Discusses such topics as environmental conditions, human ecology, land use, wildlife management, and outdoor recreation in this region of the North Carolina mountains named for geologist, botanist, minister, and Black Mountain explorer Elisha Mitchell (1793–1857). Focuses on especially on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Visgilio, Gerald R., and Diana M. Whitelaw, eds. Our Backyard: A Quest for Environmental Justice. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xvii + 223 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.95. Essays on the history of the environmental justice movement in the United States from the 1960s to the present. See especially chapter one by Bunyan Bryant titled "History and Issues of the Environmental Justice Movement" (pp. 3–23) and chapter three by Manuel Lizarralde titled "Green Imperialism: Indigenous People and Conservation of Natural Environments" (pp. 39–57).

Walls, Laura Dassow. Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. viii + 280 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Examines American transcendental philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's (1803–1882) theories about science, especially as reflected in his writings. Includes some discussion of his philosophy of nature.

Williams, Glyndwr. Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. xx + 467 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $29.95. Describes the many failed attempts made by explorers, traders, sailors, and speculators during the eighteenth century to locate a navigable passage westward from the Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean Arctic region. Asserts that although said passage was not found until the early twentieth century, the expeditions yielded valuable geographical information about North America.

Zerner, Charles, ed. Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. xii + 289 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95. Collection of essays discussing late-twentieth-century disputes between indigenous populations and governments in Southeast Asia over such issues as land tenure, property rights, natural resource conservation, forest utilization, and environmental justice. Based on field research conducted in the 1980s and 1990s. See especially chapter entitled "Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest: Property Zones, Resource Access, and Environmental Change in Indonesia" by Nancy Lee Peluso (pp. 184–218), which discusses indigenous forest dwelling peoples' property rights in West Kalimantan, Borneo, since the nineteenth century.

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