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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

Ali, Saleem H. Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxii + 254 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. Argues that environmental concerns and especially a desire for sovereignty have been the primary motivating forces behind resistance to mining development projects by Indians of North America in Canada and the United States during the late twentieth century. Employs case studies of land use conflict between mining companies, local governments, and indigenous populations in Wisconsin, Arizona, Labrador, and Saskatchewan. Discusses environmental policy, environmental ethics, mining claims, mineral rights, the influence of land use conflict on environmental policy, and the specific native groups protesting development in these areas.

Allen, Barbara L. Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xiii + 211 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00. Ethnographic study of citizen activism for environmental justice in Louisiana from the 1960s to the present. Discusses public concerns about pollution, health hazards produced by petrochemical plants, the environmental impacts of economic development, environmental racism, and social justice. Asserts that coalitions between local citizens of all races and classes and expert activists have produced some successful results in regulating the practices of the petrochemical industry in "cancer alley."

Anderson, Kit. Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii + 183 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95. Cross-cultural comparison of the symbolic aspects of these two tree species that have affected human relationships with forested landscapes in the state of Louisiana and in the Central American nation of Guatemala throughout history. The author asserts that the ceiba is the national tree of Guatemala and has been viewed as sacred in that culture since ancient times, and that the live oak is a dominant street tree in Louisiana with a symbolic connection to southern culture and the region's plantation heritage.

Armus, Diego, ed. Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. Cloth $64.95, paper $21.95. Essays on the history of disease and public health in Latin America focusing on the time period dating from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century. Discusses such diseases as: syphilis, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, Chagas' disease, hookworm, the plague, and AIDS. Focuses on health issues in the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

Bachmann, Karen. Porcupine Goldfields, Ontario. St. Catharines, Ont.: Looking Back Press, 2003. 128 pp. Illustrations. Largely a pictorial history of the origins and development of the gold mining communities of Timmins, Schumacher, South Porcupine, and Porcupine in Ontario, Canada, from 1909 to 1919. Examines economic and social aspects of life in the gold mining camps.

Barnes, Michael. Kirkland Lake, Ontario. St. Catharines, Ont.: Looking Back Press, 2003. 128 pp. Illustrations. Heavily illustrated twentieth-century history of gold mines and mining in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. Focuses especially on the dominant role played by Harry Oakes.

Beinart, William. The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770–1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xx + 425 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, select bibliography, index. Environmental change and debates about conservation in South Africa in the precolonial era and while the nation was under the influence of Dutch and British colonial rule. Discusses such topics as: the environmental impacts of sheep and cattle grazing; soil erosion; vegetation change; irrigation and water resources development; droughts; agricultural land use; environmental concerns about land degradation; and the conservation of wildlife and natural resources.

Bowman, Bob, and Doris Bowman. Historic Murders of East Texas. Lufkin: Best of East Texas Publishers, 2003. 248 pp. Illustrations, index. Detailed descriptions of infamous murders connected to the lumber, sawmill, and forest products industries in eastern Texas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Branch, Michael P., ed. Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xxxi + 408 pp. Cloth $54.95, paper $24.95. Anthology containing writings about nature, natural history, wildlife, and landscapes in what is today the United States produced by explorers, politicians, scientists, authors, and others during the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The editor provides a brief biographical sketch and summary for selected contributions by such noted individuals as Christopher Columbus (1451–1506); Amerigo Vespucci (c. 1452–1512); Cotton Mather (1663–1728); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826); Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809); William Clark (1770–1838); John James Audubon (1780–1851); Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882); Washington Irving (1783–1859); Margaret Fuller (1810–1850); Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813–1894); and others.

Brundenius, Claes, ed. Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative: Challenges to the Copper Industry. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2003. vii + 182 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $80.00. Essays on the impact of technological developments within the copper mining industry on levels of industrial pollution and environmental quality in Chile, China, Peru, and Russia. Late twentieth century.

Chandler, Katherine R., and Melissa A. Goldthwaite, eds. Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams: New Critical Essays. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. xxii + 265 pp. Notes, select bibliography, list of contributors, index. Paper $19.95. Essays examining the nature writing of American author Terry Tempest Williams (b. 1955). Topics covered include: Williams' representations of Utah landscapes in literature; her writings about the relationship between Mormon theology and environmental philosophy; and her works addressing such topics as ecofeminism, sense of place, environmentalism, natural history, and environmental ethics.

Clapson, Mark. Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the USA. New York: New York University Press, 2003. 272 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00, paper $25.00. Comparative study of the growth of suburban development in England and the United States during the twentieth century examining the influence of suburbanization on social life and customs in the two nations.

Cochrane, Willard W. The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance: A Sustainable Solution. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xii + 154 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. $35.00. Essays, some previously published, examining the economic and environmental impacts of agricultural development in the United States since the 1950s. Argues that although agricultural practices during the 1950s and 1960s differed greatly from those of the last decade, agricultural development during both periods resulted in environmental degradation, the economic demise of the small farmer in response to the growth of agribusiness, and a surplus of waste due to overproduction. The author concludes with a suggested sustainable agricultural policy strategy for the future.

Couturier, Edith Boorstein. The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. x + 224 pp. Illustrations, maps. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.95. Biography of Pefro Romero de Terreros (1710–1781), a mining entrepreneur and philanthropist born in Spain who achieved wealth while living in Mexico.

Cowan, Mary Morton. Timberrr ... A History of Logging in New England. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 2003. 128 pp. Illustrations, map, references, glossary, index. $25.90. An illustrated history of logging in the northeastern United States from the colonial era to the present. Written for a juvenile (elementary or junior high school) audience. Discusses such topics as: the use of wood cut from New England forests to produce warmth, housing, ship masts, and other products; logging camps, lumbering practices, log hauling and river driving, and the milling of logs; and modern-day forest management philosophy and conflicts between the forest industries and environmentalists in the region.

Dunlap, Thomas R. Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. [224] pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Examines religious aspects of environmentalism and the moral passion inherent in environmental philosophy from the seventeenth century to the present.

Ethridge, Robbie. Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiii + 369 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.50. Ethnohistorical study of the social and economic aspects of Creek Indian culture in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee from the 1790s through the 1810s during a period of increasing interaction with whites and blacks. Based largely on perceptions of Creek Indian culture recorded in the journals of U.S. Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins (1754–1816). Discusses such topics as agricultural land use, deer hunting and the deerskin trade, farming, ranching, and tenure, and ethnic relations.

Fagan, Brian. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xvii + 284 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $26.00. Examines human adaptation to changes in climatic and environmental conditions from prehistoric times through A.D. 1200. Includes discussion of such topics as: floods that changed human settlement patterns in Europe; desertification that impacted herders in Africa; climate conditions that impacted hunting, gathering, and farming practices in the Near East and in the geographic realm of the Roman Empire; and heavy rainfalls that encouraged rat population growth and helped spread the bubonic plague during the Middle Ages, thus shaping migration patterns throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Farabee, Charles R., Jr. National Park Ranger: An American Icon. Lanham, Md.: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2003. xi + 180 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. Colorful, anecdotal history of the United States National Park Service focusing on the responsibilities and experiences of its park rangers since the creation of the Ranger Service and the National Park System in the mid-nineteenth century. Discusses such topics as natural disasters, fire fighting, wilderness rescues, and interactions between rangers and bootleggers, poachers, and drug dealers.

Foran, Max. Trails & Trials: Markets and Land Use in the Alberta Beef Cattle Industry 1881–1948. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary Press, 2003. xv + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, select bibliography, index. Economic history of the cattle industry in Alberta, Canada. Discusses such topics as: ranching practices; agricultural conditions; land use; export markets; tariffs; price controls; range management; reclamation; and irrigation.

Goodman, Steven M., and Jonathan P. Benstead, eds. The Natural History of Madagascar. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxi + 1709 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, maps, notes, references, list of contributors, indexes. $85.00. Essays on Madagascar's biological diversity and environmental conditions, divided into chapters on such broad topics as: scientific exploration, geology and soils, climate, forest ecology, human ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and conservation. Provides some historical information ranging from prehistoric times to the present.

Goodstein, David. Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. 140 pp. Illustrations, annotated bibliography, notes, index. $21.95. Warns that human society is too dependent upon dwindling petroleum resources and discusses alternative energy resources. Includes some examination of technological developments since the eighteenth century that led to modern-day society's primary dependence on this fossil fuel.

Hallock, Thomas. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xix + 289 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95. Examines representations of wilderness in pastoral literature written by American authors during this era, focusing on the ways in which writers associated images of the frontier environment with political identity.

Harris, Esmond, Jeanette Harris, and N. D. G. James. Oak: A British History. Macclesfield [Cheshire, England]: Windgather Press, 2003. xiii + 241 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. £16.99. On the management, measurement, propagation, ecology, and uses of the oak tree species in England from prehistoric times to the present. Includes discussion of symbolism associated with oaks and the species' impact on the development of human society and the landscape in Great Britain.

Hartswick, Kim J. The Gardens of Sallust: A Changing Landscape. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xii + 219 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Studies the sculptural displays, architectural design, and landscape features of the horti Sallustiani, an opulent garden that existed in ancient Rome that was originally owned by the Roman historian, senator, and praetor Caius Sallustius Crispus (86–34 B.C.). Looks at evidence of changes made to the garden during ancient times as well as modern changes in the topography of the area caused by the growth and development of Italy's capital city beginning in 1871.

Herring, Scott. Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. xi + 199 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.50, paper $16.50. Traces changes in attitudes toward national parks, natural areas, and wilderness in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as reflected in art, literature, and photography from the era. Asserts that whereas writers, artists, and photographers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tended to express the reverence they held for the natural beauty of such areas in their works, they were more inclined in the late twentieth century to lament the perceived corruption and economic and environmental abuses of nature reserves.

Hiltner, Ken. Milton and Ecology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 165 pp. Bibliography, index. £40.00. Examines the ecological philosophy of English poet John Milton (1608–1674), as reflected in his writings about nature, paradise, and the folly of human nature.

Huser, Verne. On the River with Lewis and Clark. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. xiv + 205 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $40.00, paper $17.95. Examines the myriad ways in which rivers were paramount to the exploratory expedition led by William Clark (1770–1838) and Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) from 1804 to 1806 through the western United States. Discusses the benefits and hazards of river travel, types of boats used, routes traveled, and the influence of the expedition on new settlement, scientific knowledge about the landscape and natural history of the western United States, and the lifestyles of Native Americans encountered during the trip.

Johnston, David W. The History of Ornithology in Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. x + 219 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. Examines the study of Virginia birds since colonial times.

Kammen, Michael. A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Pres, 2004. 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95. Examines representations of the four seasons in popular culture, literature, and art in Europe from antiquity to the eighteenth century and in the United States from the seventeenth century through the late twentieth century. Focuses especially on the United States. Discusses attitudes toward nature, the concept of a "sense of place", and the four seasons in poetry, nature writing, landscape art, calendars, films, music, cartoons, and journalism.

Kiple, Kenneth F., ed. The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 412 pp. Indexes. History and description of the world's major diseases, including: infectious diseases, heart-related diseases, genetic-related illnesses, and epidemic diseases.

Landrum, Ney C. The State Park Movement in America: A Critical Review. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xv + 288 pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, index. $44.95. On the origins, evolution, and consequences of the state parks movement in the United States since the late nineteenth century. Discusses issues associated with park establishment, park management, nature conservation, outdoor recreation, and park utilization.

Lekan, Thomas M. Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885–1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 334 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95. Examines the ways in which the notion of national identity influenced or failed to influence environmental protection in Germany under different political regimes.

Limbaugh, Ronald H., and Willard P. Fuller. Calaveras Gold: The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004. ix + 404 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, glossary, suggested reading, index. $39.95. Social history of the gold mining industry in Calaveras County, California, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focuses on race, gender, and class relations in mining towns and the influence of the industry on the development of agriculture, commerce, and political and cultural institutions in the region.

Lloyd, G. E. R. In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxi + 258 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00. Examines the ways in which ideas about diseases, their diagnosis, and their treatment influenced ancient Greek society. The author studies philosophies about medicine and health as represented in medical texts, epic and lyric poetry, philosophical treatises, and histories produced during the era.

Love, Glen A. Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. viii + 213 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.50, paper $17.50. The author argues for a biologically informed theoretical base for literary studies and critically examines representations of biology, ecology, and the environment in works of pastoral literature by American authors Willa Cather (1873–1947), Ernest Hemingway (189901961), and William Dean Howells (1837–1920).

McDonald, Hugh P. John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy. SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. xix + 227 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $68.50, paper $22.95. Discusses the influence of the environmental ethics of educator, psychologist, and philosopher John Dewey (1859–1952) on philosophies about animal rights, environmental ethics, and ecological health held by such modern environmental philosophers as Tom Regan (1938- ) and J. Baird Callicott (1941- ).

Murphy, Jim. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. New York: Clarion Books, 2003. 165 pp. Illustrations, maps, references, index. Work of juvenile literature examining the history of the yellow fever epidemic that plagued the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1790s. Discusses the impact of the epidemic on the city, paying particular attention to the efforts of free blacks in combating the disease.

O'Connell, Nicholas. On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xx + 204 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Examines human relationships with the environment of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States expressed in Native American myths, the accounts of explorers and settlers, and in poetry and prose composed by writers from the region. Focuses on literary representations of the Pacific Northwestern landscape as a "sacred place" that engenders an affinity between human beings and a regional environment. Primarily nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

O'Rourke, Dara. Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. xviii + 300 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $25.00. Case studies examining government, industry, and community responses to pollution resulting from rapid industrial development in Vietnam during the 1990s. Argues that community activism helped promote increased regulation of industries despite the government's pro-development bias.

Oshio, Kazuto. Environmental History of Water: Southern California in the Twentieth Century. Tokyo, Japan: Tamagawa University Press, 2003. 297 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Text in Japanese.

Philippon, Daniel J. Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xv + 373 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Examines the ways in which the environmental rhetoric and conservation writings of Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), Mabel Osgood Wright (1859–1934), John Muir (1838–1914), Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), and Edward Abbey (1927–1989) influenced attitudes toward the environment in the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focuses on the roles these five individuals had in the founding or revitalization of the Boone and Crockett Club, the National Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, and Earth First!, respectively.

Podskoch, Martin. Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore. The Southern Districts. Fleischmanns, N.Y.: Purple Mountain Press, 2003. 256 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography. Paper $20.00. Recollections about the role of Adirondack fire towers in the state fire prevention program of New York State from the late nineteenth century through the nineteen-eighties. Based on interviews with former rangers who staffed fire towers in the southern region of the Adirondack Mountains; anecdotes about their daily experiences are included.

Poore, Duncan. Changing Landscapes: The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and its Influence on Tropical Forest Management. Sterling, Va.: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2003. xvii + 290 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $37.50. History of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) since its founding in 1983 examining its impact on the sustainable use of tropical forests.

Richards, John. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiv + 682 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $75.00. Case studies examining human impacts on the natural world from the late-fifteenth through the early-nineteenth centuries. Discusses environmental and landscape change caused by such activities as: hunting, whaling, the establishment of fisheries, mining, ranching, the introduction of non-native species, human settlement, and the fur trade. Includes studies from around the world, focusing especially on the British Isles, China, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Russia, North America, the Antilles, and the West Indies.

Ronda, James P. Beyond Lewis & Clark: The Army Explores the West. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 2003. xi + 106 pp. Illustrations, maps, references. Companion volume to a traveling interpretive historical exhibition organized in 2003 by the Washington State Historical Society. Examines the pivotal role of the U.S. Army in the exploration of the western United States during the nineteenth century. Discusses expeditions led by: John C. Fremont (1813–1890); Stephen H. Long; Isaac I. Stevens; Zebulon Pike (1779–1813); General George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876); Major William Hemsley Emory (1811–1887); founder of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers Colonel John James Abert (1788–1863); and others. Topics covered include the Army's role in surveying and mapping the vast region, in charting routes for railroads and telegraph wires in the West; and in documenting the area's diverse landscape, flora, and fauna in written records, art, and photographs.

Rothman, Hal K. The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xi + 258 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Examines the politics associated with the administration of Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco, California, since its establishment in 1972. Discusses the history of the landscape now comprising the recreation area from 1847 to 2000; the influence of public environmental concerns on park policy; and the challenges experienced by the United States National Park Service in the management of natural and cultural resources in this urban park.

Sample, V. Alaric, and Antony S. Cheng. Forest Conservation Policy: A Reference Handbook. Contemporary World Issues Series. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC Clio, 2004. xvi + 322 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. $45.00. General overview of the evolution of forest policy in the United States since the seventeenth century. Discusses such topics as: the conservation movement; forest health; wilderness; private forestry; national forests; community forestry; roadless areas in forests; clearcutting; forest management; sustainable forestry; multiple-use forestry; forest conservation; biotechnology; and forest law and legislation. Includes (1) a chronology of forest policy history from 1626 to 2003; (2) biographical sketches of people associated with major changes in forest policy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; (3) current forest facts and data; (4) a directory listing federal, state, and international agencies, non-governmental conservation organizations, accredited forestry schools, forest products companies, forestry trade associations, and forestry societies; (5) a general bibliography; and (6) a glossary.

Scharff, Virginia J., ed. Seeing Nature Through Gender. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xxii + 345 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, list of contributors, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.95. Essays using historical perspectives to examine the myriad ways in which people have understood and interacted with nature in gendered terms.

Shepard, Paul. Where We Belong: Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature. Edited by Florence Rose Shepard. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xxiii + 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Essays on a wide range of topics relating to environmental perception and attitudes toward nature written primarily between the 1950s and the 1970s by Paul Shepard (1925–1996), a former professor of natural philosophy and human ecology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Topics covered include: nature tourism, landscape painting, human-animal relationships, and the notion of a "sense of place". The essays sometimes employ a historical perspective and focus on the United States, although other geographic regions are also addressed.

Schrepfer, Susan R., and Philip Scranton, eds. Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture, Volume 5. New York: Routledge, 2004. ix + 275 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. Essays on agricultural biotechnology and the production of transgenic organisms, primarily in the United States, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics covered include: forest genetics and tree improvement; biological innovation in wheat and sugar production; and the use of biotechnology in the poultry, cattle, and hog industries.

Simmons, Ian G. The Moorlands of England and Wales: An Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000. Edinburgh [Scotland]: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.; distributed in the United States by Columbia University Press (New York), 2004. ix + 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, select bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.00. History of land use and environmental change on the moors of England and Wales throughout the history of human occupation. Discusses such topics as: the physical and natural characteristics of moorlands; vegetation management; the impacts of agriculture and industrialization on moors; afforestation; nature conservation; and the influence of writers, artists, and the media on perceptions of and attitudes toward moorland use and management.

Strom, Claire. Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. On the efforts of James Jerome Hill (1838–1916), owner of the Great Northern Railway Company, to promote agricultural production along his railroad's route in the Great Plains of the western United States from 1878 to 1917. Includes discussion of Hill's attempts to influence reclamation, irrigation, soil conservation, land use, and agrarianism while promoting the value of railroad transportation in the region.

Tarr, Joel A., ed. Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. viii + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, list of contributors, index. $32.00. Essays on the environmental impacts of industrial development in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics covered include: the significant role of the steel industry in the city's environmental history; air and smoke pollution; environmental degradation; water quality; waste management and disposal; and reclamation efforts.

Tolles, Bryant Franklin, Jr. Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850–1950. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2003. xxvii + 253 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. Discusses architectural features, designs, and diagrams of resort hotels built in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State to accommodate a leisure class of society interested in nature tourism, experiencing fresh air, nature trails, mountain scenery, and outdoor activities in a natural setting.

Train, Russell E. Politics, Pollution, and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003. xiii + 376 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $28.00. Autobiographical account written by Russell Train (1920- ) discussing his involvement with wildlife conservation and environmental politics, policy, and regulation in the United States throughout his career, which included stints as: a tax court judge; president of the Conservation Foundation; undersecretary of the Department of the Interior; the first chair of President Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality; the second administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and president of the World Wildlife Fund in the United States. Discusses such topics as: wildlife conservation; pollution control; environmental policies of numerous presidential administrations; environmental laws and legislation; and environmental politics in the United States and around the world.

Underwood, Roger. Tree Climber: The Education of a Forester. [Palmyra, Western Australia]: York Gum Publishing for the author, 2003. viii + 168 pp. Illustrations, notes. Paper $35.00. Autobiographical reminiscences of Australian forester Roger John Underwood (1941- ) focusing on the 1960s, 1970s. 1980s. and 1990s. Underwood worked for the forestry service in Western Australia, was a senior administrator for an amalgamated agency, and founded his own forestry consulting business. Includes discussion of such topics as fighting bushfires, tree planting, and forest management.

Van Noy, Rick. Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xxii + 220 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $44.95, paper $21.95. Based on the author's 1999 Ph.D. dissertation of the same title from Case Western Reserve University. Examines connections between cartography, landscape, and a "sense of place" in American literary works by nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), surveyors Clarence King (1842–1901) and John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), and nonfiction novelist Wallace Stegner (1909–1993).

von Glahn, Denise. The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape. Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 2003. xiii + 361 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $55.00. Examines the celebration of a "sense of place" associated with the natural beauty of geographic environments in music produced by fourteen American composers, including: Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781–1861); Charles Edward Ives (1874–1954); Aaron Copland (1900–1990); Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899–1974); Roy Harris (1898–1979); Ferdinand "Ferde" Rudolph von Grofé (1892–1972); Robert Starer (1924–2001); and Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich (1936- ).

Warren, Louis S., ed. American Environmental History. Blackwell Readers in American Social and cultural History, 12. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, Pub., 2003. xvii + 359 pp. Illustrations, map, references, index. Cloth $68.95, paper 31.95. Collection of essays on such environmental history topics as: environmental conditions; perceptions of and attitudes toward nature; landscape change; industrial development; land use; natural resource utilization, conservation, and development; waste disposal; urbanization; wilderness; national parks; nature conservation; diseases; soil conservation; environmental protection; the environmental movement; environmental health; pollution; and environmental justice. From pre-Columbian times to the present.

White, Warren H. Covered Bridges in the Southeastern United States: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003. 214 pp. Illustrations, glossary, index. Describes covered bridges built in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that were extant in the southern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia at the time of publication. Also lists covered bridges in the state of Delaware. Includes a brief historical introduction for each state's collection of bridges followed by detailed information describing each extant bridge's name, location, date of construction, and construction characteristics.

Young, Terence. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xvi + 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00. On the development of public parks in San Francisco, California. Discusses city planning efforts to include green spaces throughout the city; the landscape architecture of Golden Gate Park and other urban parks; political issues associated with park development; and social aspects of the city's parks during this era.

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