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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY (FHS) maintains an extensive computerized data bank of published sources related to environmental history. The biblioscope section of this journal includes just a selection of the new information that the FHS library adds to that data bank each quarter. The library indexes all entries in the data bank by topic, chronological period, and geographical area. The library staff will gladly provide additional information about particular items you see in this section or information on other topics from the data bank. The library is happy to respond to requests for full bibliographies or lists of archival collections that may be useful for specific research projects. The unabridged version of this Biblioscope is available on our website at http://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

Agostoni, Claudia. Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876–1910. Latin American and Caribbean series. Calgary, Alta.; Boulder, Colo.; Mexico, D.F.: University of Calgary Press; University Press of Colorado; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2003. xvii + 228 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Studies attempts at managing urban sanitation problems; public health; water quality; and the work of the Superior Sanitation Council in Mexico City, Mexico, during the regime of Mexican president José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915).

Aurand, Harold W. Coalcracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835–1935. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2003. 158 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $37.50. Argues that the setting in which anthracite coal mining took place, the hard work and dangerous conditions involved in mining coal, and the social values and customs developed to accommodate the arduous occupation contributed to the formation of a "coalcracker culture" unique to anthracite coal mining regions in Pennsylvania.

Baron, David. The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, select bibliography. $24.95. Discusses the increasing number of cougar sightings in residential Boulder, Colorado, communities in the 1980s, the death of a young jogger in 1991 caused by a mountain lion, and resulting changes in attitudes toward the animal species held by people who had previously sought to live in harmony with cougars. Includes some discussion of the history of human relationships with the species in Colorado since the sixteenth century.

Boag, Peter. Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiv + 321 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95. Examines male homosexuality and politics associated with sexual identity in the middle-class community of Portland, Oregon, and in working-class, migrant labor groups employed by the logging, mining, farming, fishing, and railroad building industries in the United States Pacific Northwest region from the 1890s to the 1910s.

Buell, Frederick. From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2003. xviii + 390 pp. Notes, index. $29.95. On the rise of an environmental consciousness in Americans after the publication of Rachel Carson's (1907–1964) book Silent Spring in 1962. Examines changes in the ways people have responded to environmental crises over the years and studies the impact of people's environmental concerns on the growth of environmentalism and on the formation of environmental policy in the United States.

Burnett, J. Alexander. A Passion for Wildlife: The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 2003. xiii + 331 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Examines mid- to late twentieth century wildlife conservation policies and programs of the Canadian Wildlife Service, organized as the Dominion Wildlife Service in 1947. Includes some discussion of early twentieth century wildlife conservation measures in Canada.

Bushnell, Rebecca W. Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 198 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $29.95. Studies ideas about the relationship between humans and plants presented in early gardening manuals and other horticultural literature produced in England during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Costello, Bonnie. Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 225 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Examines portrayals of landscape in twentieth-century poems written by American authors Robert Frost (1874–1963), Marianne Moore (1887–1972), John Ashbery (1927– ), Archie Randolph Ammons (1926–2001), Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), and Wallace Stevens (1879–1955).

Duffy, Robert J. The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-first Century. Studies in Government and Public Policy series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. ix + 260 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $35.00, paper $17.95. On the rise of environmentalism, environmental advocacy, and interest group politics in the United States since the 1960s. Primarily studies environmental politics, environmental group activism, and lobbying efforts of the 1990s.

Ernst, Howard R. Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. xiv + 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.95. Surveys environmental conditions in the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland and Virginia and examines politics associated with ecological restoration efforts in the region since the 1960s. Topics covered include declining numbers of fish, blue crabs, oysters, and aquatic grasses; environmental degradation; water pollution; and ecosystem health.

Fischman, Robert L. The National Wildlife Refuges: Coordinating a Conservation System through Law. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003. xv + 277 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00. Discusses the role and limitations of legislation shaping regulatory policies relating to conservation management in the U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System, 1960s–1990s. The author argues that the system is a model for sustainable resource management that should be extended for use in all public land management systems. Includes an appendix of public statutes pertinent to wildlife refuges in the United States and an appendix containing a chronology of refuge system development in the United States from 1869 to 2003.

Forkey, Neil S. Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003. xv + 164 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Examines changes in land use and environmental conditions in the Trent River Valley of Ontario, Canada, since the eighteenth century. Includes discussion of: early land use by native Mississagua Indians; settlement by Irish immigrants in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; construction of a dam over the Scugog River and of a sawmill and gristmill in Ops Township by William Purday; lumbering in the region during the mid- and late nineteenth century; and perceptions of everyday life and environmental change in the valley recorded by Canadian author Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1802–1899).

Freyfogle, Eric T. The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003. 336 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $25.00. Discusses policies affecting land use, land tenure, and property rights in the United States since the early nineteenth century. Includes case studies of legal battles over private property rights from this era, including one in 1805 concerning sawmill owners' construction of competing dams on a river in New York State and a 1954 dispute between coal mining companies in Taylor, Pennsylvania, and home owners whose health and homes were detrimentally affected by noxious fumes given off by the companies' slag heaps.

Hall, Carolyn, and Brignoli Héctor Pérez. Historical Atlas of Central America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xiv + 321 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $99.95. Heavily illustrated economic, political, social, and environmental history of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama; sixteenth through twentieth centuries. Discusses such topics as environmental conditions, demography, economic development, population growth, European colonialism, settlement, land use, and natural resource utilization.

Hamin, Elisabeth M. Mojave Lands: Interpretive Planning and the National Preserve. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 253 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $42.00. Discusses the environmental politics that led to the 1994 designation of the Mojave National Preserve in California; political dissension over utilization of resources in this desert wilderness area; and the management challenges of the U.S. National Park Service, under whose jurisdiction the preserve falls. Focuses on the 1990s, but includes discussion of the area's public land management since the late 1960s.

Hawley, Charles Caldwell. Wesley Earl Dunkle: Alaska's Flying Miner. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. xxi + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $34.95. Biography of Dunkle (1887–1957), a mining engineer who managed copper mines in Alaska for such industrialists as J. P. Morgan and the Guggenheim family. The author asserts that Dunkle's enthusiasm for technology was one of the primary factors influencing his founding of Alaska Airlines. Includes discussion of economic, social, and environmental change in the territory prior to statehood.

Jacobs, Nancy J. Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 300 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.00. Argues that European colonial rule instigated significant changes in land use and natural resource utilization by indigenous peoples in the Kuruman River Valley in South Africa from the mid-eighteenth through the late-twentieth centuries. Discusses the impacts of racial segregation and Apartheid on Africans' traditional pastoral lifestyles and such subsistence land use practices as hunting, logging, and farming.

Jakle, John A. Postcards of the Night: Views of American Cities. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, in association with the Center for American Places, 2003. 128 pp. Illustrations, select bibliography. $34.95. Examines representations of urban environments, social life, and local customs in postcards produced from the 1900s through the 1970s depicting nighttime views of cities and towns located throughout the United States. Includes a lengthy postcard gallery showing color drawings and color photographic images used on postcards, especially during the early twentieth century, to promote tourism and to showcase the work of city planners and urban developers.

Judd, Richard W., and Christopher S. Beach. Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2003. xv + 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $32.95, paper $19.95. Contrasts the different philosophies of nature held by local citizens of Oregon and Maine that shaped the course of environmentalism, environmental politics and policy, and the environmental movement in each state since the mid-twentieth century.

Kamholz, Edward J. The Oregon-American Lumber Company: Ain't No More. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xix + 362 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $65.00. History of this Oregon lumber company from 1922 to 1957. Based largely on the correspondence of company president Judd Greenman. Includes oral history interviews with company employees. Topics covered include the Oregon-American Lumber Company's adaptations to changes in technology and responses to natural disasters and economic challenges during the Great Depression. Includes discussion of Douglas-fir logging, log transportation via the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways, and sawmilling.

Kelman, Ari. A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 283 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Environmental history of the Mississippi River region near New Orleans, Louisiana. Discusses such topics as floods, diseases, railroad and steamboat transportation, human ecology, economic development, and urban growth in New Orleans. Focuses primarily on the nineteenth century but includes discussion of the twentieth century. Based on the author's 1998 Ph.D. dissertation for Brown University.

Kraut, Alan M. Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. xvi + 313 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Biography of American immigrant physician and U.S. Public Health Service employee Joseph Goldberger (1874–1929), whose years of exhaustive epidemiological research and human experimentation led to the discovery that nutritional deficiency rather than air-borne germs caused outbreaks of the epidemic disease pellagra. Goldberger also studied other infectious diseases, including typhoid, yellow fever, and the measles.

Long, Gary. Gilmour Tramway: A Lumber Baron's Desperate Scheme. Huntsville, Ont.: Fox Meadow Creations, 2003. 94 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $19.95 CDN. A detailed look at the technology and operation of a complex flume and conveyor system designed and built in the 1890s by Gilmour and Company near Dorset, Ontario, to lift millions of logs over a range of hills, making possible a lengthy log drive from timber limits to sawmill. Describes how economic and geographical as well as technological factors affected the project.

MacEachern, Alan. The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Island Studies Press, 2003. 142 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper $18.95 CDN. Studies the rise and fall of the environmental group known as The Institute of Man and Resources, which formed in the mid-1970s in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island for the purpose of researching, developing, and implementing alternative systems of energy utilization based on renewable resources and energy conservation. After years of declining government support of the group and declining public interest in renewable energy development, the organization folded in 1990.

McIver, Stuart B. The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvii + 187 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Biography focusing on the murder of Everglades game warden and Monroe County sheriff Guy Morrell Bradley (1870–1905) by local bird-plume hunter Walter Smith in 1905.

McMurry, Andrew. Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the System of Nature. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xii + 269 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Work of ecocriticism that uses contemporary paradigms in systems theory to analyze the philosophies of nature and attitudes toward pastoralism held by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). Examines the influence of these two American intellectuals on the evolution of environmental philosophy in the United States, and especially their formative role in shaping "deep ecology" theory.

Morse, Kathryn. The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. $29.95. Studies letters and journals written by gold miners during the late 1890s to evaluate interconnections between nature and culture in the gold rush society of the Yukon River region in Alaska and Canada's Yukon Territory. Discusses such topics as environmental conditions of the region, attitudes toward nature held by miners, mining technology, and life on the gold rush frontier. Based on the author's 1997 Ph.D. dissertation,"The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Alaska/Yukon Gold Rush," from the University of Washington.

Myers, Judith H., and Dawn Bazely. Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv + 313 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, references, index. Cloth $100.00, paper $40.00. Provides an introduction to techniques used by ecologists to evaluate the impacts of non-native plant introduction on native ecosystems. Includes some history of plant introduction and of efforts to control biological invasions and conserve native species in the twentieth century. Discusses such topics as plant diseases, the use of chemicals and other methods in the eradication of invasive plants, and the implications of genetic plant modification.

Peterson, Jon A. The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xxi + 431 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Studies the origins of urban planning and the evolution of early philosophies about developing and shaping the physical dimensions of cities in the United States. Includes chapters on sanitation reform, civic art, the City Beautiful movement, and the work of such pioneer city planners as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (1870–1957), Charles Mulford Robinson (1869–1917), John Nolen (1869–1937), and Daniel Burnham (1846–1912).

Radkau, Joachim, and Frank Uekötter, eds. Naturschutz und Nationalsozialismus. Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag, 2003. 487 pp. Notes, list of contributors. Papers arising from a conference on "Nature Protection in Nazi Germany" held 3–5 July 2002 in Berlin, Germany. Topics covered include the legal and institutional aspects of nature conservation in Nazi Germany; philosophies of and attitudes toward nature in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s; and conservation leaders of the era. Includes some discussion of environmental protection and nature conservation in the pre-1930s and post-1940s eras. Text in German.

Rhodes, Edwardo Lao. Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xi + 263 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Examines the economic, health, social, and technological factors that have impacted the evolution of environmental justice as a public policy issue of concern in the United States during the late twentieth century. Questions why so few minorities are represented in the environmental movement; studies the environmental risks experienced disproportionately by people of color; and investigates the efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address the negative impacts on minorities resulting from its environmental policies.

Roberts, J. Timmons, and Nikki Demetria Thanos. Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America. New York: Routledge, 2003. xvii + 285 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $18.95. Discusses the environmental impacts of economic development in Latin America during the late twentieth century, focusing especially on environmental issues resulting from globalization during the 1990s. Topics covered include agricultural biotechnology, biosphere reserves, deforestation, pollution, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Rosowski, Susan J., ed. Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xiv + 327 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper $35.00. Essays examining environmental themes in novels and short stories written by American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873–1947).

Schneiders, Robert Kelley. Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone & Upper Missouri. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xviii + 374 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Examines changes in environmental conditions in these river valleys spreading across portions of Montana, Iowa, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska since the early nineteenth century. Topics covered include the ecology of the region; indigenous flora and fauna; Native American land use; the influence of bison on the history of the region; early European-American exploration of the area; hydraulic engineering efforts of such government agencies as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Reclamation Service; and present-day ecological conditions.

Schullery, Paul, and Lee Whittlesey. Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xv + 125 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.00. Examines folklore and mythology associated with the establishment of the first national park in the United States. Discusses debates within the historical community over the validity of claims purported to have been among the earliest suggestions for preserving the area now known as Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Schwartz, Seymour I. The Mismapping of America. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2003. xv + 233 pp. Illustrations, maps, references, index. $39.95. Studies errors made in cartographic representations of what became the United States, and the impacts of such inaccurate information on the exploration and settlement of the new world; sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.

Seasholes, Nancy S. Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xiv + 533 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $49.95. Work of historical geography examining land use, city planning, and urban development in Boston, Massachusetts, since the 1630s.

Spilsbury, Gail. Rock Creek Park. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 79 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, select bibliography.$21.95. On the early history of this park in Washington, D.C. Focuses on the landscape philosophy behind the early design of the park in the 1900s and the role of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., (1870–1957) in planning for the development and beautification of the park in the 1910s. Includes a chronology of the park's administration and structures covering the years 1890 to 1987.

Stout, Benjamin B. The Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina): An Oregon View, 1975–2002. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, 2003. ii + 165 + [iv] pp. Notes, index. Paper $16.95. Examines in detail the controversy surrounding the protection of the northern spotted owl under the provisions of the 1973 Endangered Species Act in Oregon. Focuses on the resulting impacts on Oregon communities dependent upon income derived from timber harvesting. Includes discussion of contentious debates between residents, loggers and forest industry workers, U.S. Forest Service personnel, politicians, environmental activists, wildlife biologists, and the mass media.

Sweeting, Adam. Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer. Hanover: University Press of New England for the University of New Hampshire, 2003. xii + 191 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Examines literary representations of the phenomenon known as Indian Summer in the work of such nineteenth-century American authors as Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), Francis Parkman (1828–1893), Emily Dickenson (1830–1886), and William Dean Howells (1837–1920). Specifically looks at writings focusing on warm, summer-like autumn weather in New England and the ways in which the Indian Summer season has been imagined and described in American literature. Includes discussion of Indian Summer's influence on the creation of a regional identity and sense of place associated with New England.

Trawick, Paul B. The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv + 351 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Studies the impacts of hacienda expansion, water law and legislation, water resources development, and land use policy on indigenous populations living in the Cotahuasi River Watershed in the Andes Mountains of Peru whose agricultural livelihoods are dependent upon a steady supply of water. See especially chapter two, "Early History" (pp. 39–70), which studies traditional uses, management, and development of water supplies from the pre-colonial era through the 1940s.

Walters, Michael. A Concise History of Ornithology. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00. Focuses on major developments in this field of study throughout the world since ancient times.

Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Figures, notes, further reading, index. $24.95. Studies the work of climatologists from around the world that contributed to the development of a general consensus among scientists by the end of the twentieth century that global warming is a valid phenomena. Includes a chronology listing milestones in the history of the study of global warming from 1800 to 1988.

Webb, Melody. A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. xiii + 272 pp. Illustrations, selected reading, index. $39.95. Autobiography of Melody Webb (1946– ) in which the author reminisces about her historic preservation and management work for the U.S. National Park Service since the early 1970s. Includes discussion of the politics that have influenced National Park Service policies regarding natural resource management, land use, and recreation in the late twentieth century.

Williams, Howard. The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xxxiii + 394 pp. Notes, index. Cloth $49.95, paper $24.95. Facsimile reproduction of first edition originally published in 1883 in London, England, by F. Pitman. Offers critiques of and includes quotations from writings promoting the ethical reasons for maintaining a vegetarian diet published by numerous authors since ancient times.

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