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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

Bachin, Robin F. Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890–1919. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix + 434 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $35.00. Studies the ways in which local cultural conflicts between races and classes influenced the development of the built environment in South Side Chicago, Illinois, during the Progressive era.

Beach, Patrick. A Good Forest for Dying: The Tragic Death of a Young Man on the Front Lines of the Environmental Wars. New York: Doubleday, 2004. xiv + 271 pp. $24.95. Biographical account that briefly traces the history of clashes between environmentalists and lumbermen in the western United States since the late nineteenth century that culminated in the 1998 death of Earth First! activist David Chain in northern California. A tree felled by Pacific Lumber anti-environmentalist logger A. E. Ammons killed Chain while he was trying to prevent the logging of old-growth redwood trees.

Belton, Benjamin Keith. Orinoco Flow: Culture, Narrative, and the Political Economy of Information. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. viii + 218 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Studies representations of Venezuela's Orinoco River Region in scientific, academic, and fictional literature from the fifteenth century to the present, examining the relationship between fiction, historical narrative, and the social, political, and economic development of the region.

Bess, Michael. The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960–2000. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xix + 369 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Environmentalism and the Green movement in France during the late twentieth century.

Blanchet, Patrick. Forest Fires: The Story of a War. Montreal, Quebec: Cantos International Publishing, 2003. 182 pp. Illustrations, notes. Forest fire protection in the Canadian province of Quebec from 1869 to 1972. Discusses such topics as fire detection, fire fighting technology, the establishment and work of the Quebec Forest Protection Service.

Bogener, Stephen. Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2003. xi + 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Study of irrigation agriculture and reclamation in the Pecos River Valley of New Mexico and Texas from the 1870s to the 1920s examining the relationship between settlement and water resources development in the region.

Cassidy, Victor M., ed. Hunting for Frogs on Elston and Other Tales from Field and Street. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press in association with Chicago Wilderness, 2004. xv + 303 pp. Illustrations. $25.00. Perceptions of nature and observations about the urban ecology and natural history of Chicago, Illinois, reprinted from selected Field & Street columns written by Sullivan (1938–2000) that appeared weekly in the Chicago Reader during the 1980s and 1990s.

Chenoweth, Michael. The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750–1786. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 93, Pt. 2. Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, 2003. ix + 153 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the observations and theories about the impacts of weather events and land use on climatic and environmental conditions in Jamaica recorded in daily journals by English horticulturist and small plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood (1721–1786).

Cohen, Shaul E. Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America. Berkeley: University of California, 2004. xiii + 210 p. Illustrations, references, index. The history of tree planting in the United States, the rise of popular sentiment about trees, the development of Arbor Day, and the growth of tree planting organizations such as the National Arbor Day Foundation and American Forests.

Dempsey, Dave. On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004. xi + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper $24.95. Examines the use and management of Great Lakes resources since the nineteenth century. Discusses such topics as lake ecology, environmental conditions, industrial pollution, economic development, sewage management, overfishing, nature conservation, and water resources development in areas of the midwestern United States bordering lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.

Dilsaver, Lary M. Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. x + 323 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $35.00. Examines natural and human-induced ecological change on Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia from prehistoric times through the plantation era; use of the island as a vacation resort for wealthy families in the early twentieth century; the island's designation as a national seashore under the direction of the U.S. National Park Service in 1972; and subsequent conservation challenges.

Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xx + 311 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $35.00. The author argues that contrary to common perceptions that the mixed husbandry practices of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English settlers in the Concord region of Massachusetts resulted in land degradation, colonial agricultural land use was instead characterized by a sustainable farming system that incorporated the management of orchards, pastures, hay meadows, woodlots, and commons areas. The area is today the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Duncan, Dayton. Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. x + 202 pp. Notes. $22.00. The author discusses in an anecdotal fashion the daily experiences of, indigenous populations encountered by, and places visited by members of the exploratory expedition led by Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) and William Clark (1770–1838) through the western United States from 1804 to 1806.

Economy, Elizabeth C. The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiii + 337 pp. Map, notes, index. $29.95. Discusses the environmental consequences of the intense economic growth experienced in China during the 1980s and 1990s. Covers natural resource depletion, environmental degradation, industrial pollution, public health problems, environmental protection, and environmental policy.

Farr, Judith, and Louise Carter. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xv + 350 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $26.95. Examines Dickinson's (1830–1886) horticultural interest in gardening and discusses the many references to gardens and flowers made by the American poet in her poems and personal letters.

Fedkiw, John, Douglas W. MacCleery, and V. Alaric Sample. Pathway to Sustainability: Defining the Bounds on Forest Management. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2004. vii + 64 pp. Illustrations, references. Four authors offer their reflections on forest sustainability in the U.S. as a progression from former management philosophies.

Foley, William E. Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xiv + 326 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $29.95. Biography of William Clark (1770–1838), famous for his 1804–1806 exploration of the western United States with Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809). Discusses his family and business life as an explorer, soldier, diplomat, and government official.

Greenough, Paul, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds. Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. xii + 428 pp. Notes, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Cloth $89.95, paper $24.95. Essays derived from a conference on Environmental Discourses and Human Welfare in South and Southeast Asia held in Hilo, Hawaii, in December 1995. Papers discuss changes in human use and management of natural resources in this geographic region since the nineteenth century, focusing especially on the postcolonial era. Topics covered include non-timber forest products, tropical forest management, economic development, public health and disease, environmentalism, community forestry, environmental politics, and natural resource utilization.

Gudis, Catherine. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00. Examines the relationship between roadside advertising on billboards and the sides of barns, automobile transportation, economic development, consumer culture, and suburban sprawl since the late nineteenth century.

Harris, Nathaniel. Atlas of the World's Deserts. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 192 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $125.00. Atlas including information on the geography, ecology, and history of deserts around the world.

Hofstra, Warren R. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xv + 410 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $49.95. A geographic and landscape history of the region just west of the Blue Ridge Mountains in what is today Virginia and West Virginia. Focuses on the eighteenth century and discusses such topics as settlement, land use, and frontier and pioneer life.

Johnsgard, Paul A. Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xiii + 143 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Paper $14.95. Discusses the flora and fauna encountered by members of the 1804–1806 exploratory expedition led by Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) and William Clark (1770–1838) in the Great Plains of the United States. Includes a guide to sites of botanical and zoological interest.

Krech, Shepard, III, J. R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, eds. Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. New York: Routledge, 2004. 3 vols. Illustrations, maps, list of contributors, further reading, index. Essays using a historical perspective to briefly define and discuss a wide array of topics included in the broad field of environmental history.

Lockwood, Jeffrey A. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xxiii + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00. Entomological study of ecological conditions in the western United States during the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s that first supported swarms of Rocky Mountain locust insects and then led to the relative extinction of the species. Argues that human agricultural land use led to the eradication of the species.

Milligan, Mike. Westwater Lost and Found. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2004. xviii + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $21.95. History of Westwater, Utah, from ancient times to the present written by a river guide. Examines such topics as: land use by Native Americans and European settlers; exploration; ranching; agricultural activities; and outdoor recreation in the region, especially whitewater rafting on the Colorado River in Westwater Canyon.

Montgomery, David R. King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2003. xii + 290 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the negative impacts of such human activities as overfishing, dam construction, and water pollution on salmon stocks in England and Scotland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and especially in the United States Pacific Northwest and Northeast since the sixteenth century.

Murphy, Dallas. Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives —A Deck's-Eye View of Cape Horn. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xv + 358 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. $39.95. The author relates his own experiences of sailing around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America and discusses the history, geography, flora and fauna, oceanography, and anthropology of the Cape region; sixteenth through twentieth centuries. Until the construction of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century, the dangerous stretch of water between the Cape and the Antarctic peninsula was the only ocean passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Obach, Brian K. Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. x + 338 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $27.00. Examines tensions between and common goals shared by labor unions and environmentalists in the United States in the late twentieth century. See especially chapter three, which provides a historical overview of relations between the two groups during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Osif, Bonnie A., Anthony J. Baratta, and Thomas W. Conkling. TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xiv + 158 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95. Describes the circumstances that led to the March 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and examines the resulting cleanup effort and impacts on political, environmental, and nuclear energy development decisions made in the United States since the disaster.

Padrón, Ricardo. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 287 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $35.00. Studies the influence of geographic maps and imperialistic literature on Spanish nationalism and colonialism, focusing particularly on the relationship between cartography and the Iberian conquest of the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Palmer, Douglas. Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 176 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $29.95. Work of historical geology studying such topics as climate change, environmental change, natural history, and human impact on the earth during the prehistoric era.

Perkins, David. Romanticism and Animal Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 190 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, index. Examines references to animal rights, animal welfare, and human-animal relationships in English Romantic literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Price, Jay M. Gateways to the Southwest: The Story of Arizona State Parks. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xx + 242 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00. On the movement to establish state parks, recreation areas, and monuments in Arizona;1950s through 1990s. Focuses on the unique management challenges of such lands since many arose through land exchanges, partnerships, and cooperative ventures with the federal government or private organizations.

Raymond, Leigh. Private Rights in Public Resources: Equity and Property Allocation in Market-Based Environmental Policy. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2003. x + 253 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95. Studies the prominence of equity arguments about property rights in debates and decisions about environmental policy arising from the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934 and the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990. Includes analysis of the two laws' impact on United States policies regarding acid rain, property rights, public lands, global climate change, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Richardson, Bonham C. Igniting the Caribbean's Past: Fire in British West Indian History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95. Studies the use of fire to clear forests, burn sugarcane, light streets and houses, encourage slave insurrections, and symbolize protest in the Lesser Antilles from 1885 to 1910 during British colonial rule.

Roberts, Charlotte A., and Jane E. Buikstra. The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xxiii + 343 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. On the diagnosis, epidemiology, and prevalence of tuberculosis in human society since medieval times. Focuses on the sociological, ecological, and geographic changes associated with a reemergence of the disease.

Sinclair, Donna, and Richard McClure, eds. 'No Goldbricking Here': Oral Histories of the CCC in the Columbia National Forest, 1933–1942. [Portland, Or.?]: Heritage Program, Gifford Pinchot National Forest and History Dept., Portland State University, 2003. iii + 312 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, references, index. Oral history interviews with former U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) members stationed on the Columbia National Forest in Washington State during the 1930s or 1940s. Interviewees discuss their work clearing snags, building roads, cutting wood, planting trees, preventing forest fires, and constructing recreational buildings, lodges, dams, and camps. Interviews conducted by Portland State University students with: Phil Amoruso (1920– ), Carroll Aust (1916– ), Wesley Betts 1914– ), Philip Brumbaugh (1908– ), Kenneth Good (1913– ), Paul Grooms (1918– ), Lynn Hazen (1919– ), Fred Hemenway (1921– ), Jack Leonard (1920– ), Ben Marshall (1918– ), Charlie McMahan (1920– ), Pete Paladeni (1915– ), Jack Pollari, (1921– ) Frank Pratt (1910– ), Kenneth Ray (1920– ), Charles Sethe, Cliff Smedley (1916– ), and Pat Sutherland (1921– ).

Speth, James Gustave. Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xv + 299 pp. Notes, further reading, index. $24.00. Argues that the United States has done a poor job of managing such environmental problems as climate change, loss of biological diversity, deforestation, water shortages, invasive species, and pollution both at home and internationally during the late twentieth century. Urges individuals and governments to adopt more radical strategies for addressing such problems in the future.

Stein, Harry H. Pope Resources: Rooted in the Past, Growing for the Future. Seattle, Wash.: Documentary Book Publishers for Pope Resources, 2003. xvii + 173 pp. Illustrations, select bibliography, index. History of Pope Resources and its predecessor company Pope & Talbot from the 1840s to the present. Discusses such topics as: the founders and leaders of the organization, changes in management and production policies, the company's expansion and growth, and the company's economic development of Port Gamble and Port Ludlow on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.

Taylor, J. Cary, and Patricia J. Scharlin. Smart Alliance: How a Global Corporation and Environmental Activists Transformed a Tarnished Brand. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xxii + 278 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, selected bibliography, index. $30.00. On the efforts of Chiquita Brands International to improve its environmental, health, and safety record beginning in the mid-1990s through a voluntary alliance with the nonprofit environmental group Rainforest Alliance that resulted in the establishment of a Better Banana seal of approval. Examines the cooperative work of corporate executives, banana field workers, conservation advocates, and local leaders in Central America and the resulting impacts on soil and water quality, worker health and safety, and rainforest conservation. Includes some discussion of the company's plantation agriculture practices when it was known as United Fruit Company earlier in the twentieth century.

Thomas, Jack Ward. Jack Ward Thomas: The Journals of a Forest Service Chief. Edited by Harold K. Steen. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, in association with the University of Washington Press, 2004. 417 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $30.00. The experiences, thoughts, and impressions recorded by Jack Ward Thomas (1934– ) in journals he wrote while serving as chief of the United States Forest Service from 1990 to 1996. Topics covered include: partisan politics in Washington, D.C.; grazing on national forests; timber salvage legislation; forest health; the old growth-spotted owl issue; forest fires and the death of firefighters; wildlife management on national forest lands; and U.S. Forest Service policy.

Trow, George W. S. The Harvard Black Rock Forest. The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 109 pp. Paper $14.95. Originally published as an essay in the 11 June 1984 edition of New Yorker. On the history of a demonstration forest tract established in New York State in 1926 by owner Ernest Stillman, who deeded the forest to Harvard University upon his death in 1949, hoping the school would use it as a research forest in conjunction with the Harvard Forest. The university sold the forest in 1989, and it subsequently became a research field station.

Unti, Bernard. Protecting All Animals: A fifty-Year History of the Humane Society of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Humane Society Press, 2004. vii + 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $125.00, paper $29.50. On the rise of the modern humane movement in the United States from the 1860s to the present, focusing specifically on the work of the Humane Society of the United States since its founding in 1954. Looks at the group's campaigns against whaling, factory farming, the fur industry, and pet overpopulation, among others.

Vermaas, Lori. Sequoia: The Heralded Tree in American Art and Culture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003. xvi + 271 pp. Illustrations, photographs, map, notes, bibliography, index. Examines depictions of United States Pacific Coast sequoia trees in stereographs, lithographs, engravings, illustrations, paintings, photographs, films, and literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discusses symbolism associated with the trees in works by Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916), Edward Vischer (1809–1879), Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), Darius Kinsey (1869–1945), and others.

Wagner, Thomas E., and Phillip J. Obermiller. African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xii + 158 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $35.00, paper $20.00. Based on archival research and extensive personal interviews, this work explores the social life and customs of a group of African-American coal miners who worked in the mining towns of Benham and Lynch, Kentucky, during the Progressive era. Examines the Eastern Kentucky Social Club's sense of group identity that they maintained even after migrating away from Harlan County, Kentucky, to search for a better life free of the dangers of coal mining and the paternalism of company-dominated towns.

Walker, J. Samuel. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xi + 303 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95. Comprehensive examination of the causes, context, and consequences of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in March 1979. Focuses especially on efforts to mitigate the disaster in the days following the accident, but also discusses the event's influence on subsequent nuclear energy development policy in the United States.

Wood, Denis. Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land. New York: Guilford Press, 2004. xv + 335 pp. Notes, index. Paper $19.95. Broad history of environmental change on earth from the Big Bang to the present. Discusses geological and geographical processes that evolved over time as well as the impacts human land use on environmental conditions around the globe.

Woolsey, Ronald C. Will Thrall and the San Gabriels: A Man to Match the Mountains. San Diego, Calif.: Sunbelt Publications, 2004. xvi + 152 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $24.95. Biography of William Henry Thrall (1873–1963), a man who organized hiking clubs, promoted water conservation, worked as an environmental journalist, photographed historic mountain cabins, identified unique geologic formations, and explored trails made by pioneers and Native Americans during previous eras in the San Gabriel Mountains around what is now Los Angeles, California.

Ziewitz, Kathryn, and June M. Wiaz. Green Empire: the St. Joe Company and the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xii + 363 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. From the 1920s through the 1980s, under the leadership of Ed Ball, the St. Joe Paper Company purchased one million acres of timberlands in Northwest Florida and grew trees to make into paper. In the 1990s it began selling the land for real estate development.

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