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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

Adams, Denise Wiles. Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640–1940. Portland, Or.: Timber Press, 2004. 419 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $39.95. Part one of this volume briefly describes predominant American landscape architecture styles in use from 1600 through 1955; part two describes and illustrates in encyclopedic format the myriad species of vines, shrubs, trees, plants, bulbs, and flowers commonly used in the United States from the mid-seventeenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Historic photographs, period postcards, and landscape photographs supplement the text.

Bak, Hans, and Walter W. Hölbling, eds."Nature's Nation" Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis. European Contributions to American Studies, no. 49. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2003. 478 pp. Essays by European scholars discussing the ways in which attitudes toward nature have affected settlement, land use, natural resource utilization, and environmental protection in the United States through history. Essays address such topics as gardening, strip mining, farming, urban planning, environmental activism, environmental philosophy, philosophy of nature, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and representations of nature in American art, films, and literature.

Bowerbank, Sylvia Lorraine. Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 287 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Studies attitudes toward and perceptions of nature and ecology in writings by English women authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Includes discussion of works by such writers as Mary Wroth (ca. 1586-ca. 1640), Margaret Cavendish (1624?-1674), Mary Rich Warwick (1625-1678), Catherine Talbot (1721-1770), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).

Cafaro, Philip. Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xii + 272 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Studies the ethical philosophy of American nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Includes some discussion of his environmental ethics and philosophy of nature, as expressed in his transcendental writings.

Dombeck, Michael P. An Interview With Michael P. Dombeck. Edited by Harold K. Steen. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2004. ix + 190 leaves. Final transcript. In this oral history interview, former U.S. Forest Service chief and fisheries biologist Michael P. Dombeck (b. 1948) reminisces about his life and career, focusing specifically on his leadership of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as acting director from 1994 to 1997; his tenure as chief of the Forest Service from 1997 to 2001; and his work as professor of global environmental management at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point beginning in 2001. Includes discussion of such topics as roadless areas, forest politics, forest policy, wildlife biology, fire budgets, workforce diversity, interagency cooperation, and the Rise to the Future fishery program he started for the Forest Service. Oral history interview conducted by Harold K. Steen.

Evenden, Matthew D. Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii + 309 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Examines economic, political, and social conflicts over dam construction, water resources development, hydroelectricity, and salmon conservation in the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia, Canada, since 1900.

Fagen, Adam. Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic: The Environmental Movement in the Transition Process. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. vi + 195 pp. Bibliography, index. $85.00. Environmental politics in the Czech Republic from 1990 to the present. Discusses the rise of environmental organizations in the nation and the role of democracy in shaping the evolution of the environmental movement in the wake of communism.

Fogel, Robert William. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time; 38. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 191 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Argues that over the past few centuries, areas of the world that developed technological innovations experienced greater economic growth, advances in medical treatments that led to better public health, and an increase in longevity that demanded more and better health care for the general public. Discusses such topics as mortality, demography, malnutrition, food supply, technological change, economic development, leisure, and health care policy in both modern and developing countries.

Galvan, Dennis Charles. The State Must be our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiv + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95. Studies the impacts of economic development policies introduced by French colonials in the early twentieth century and by government officials after political independence in 1960 on the traditional land use and land tenure practices of indigenous populations in Senegal's Sine-Saloum delta.

Grusin, Richard. Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. vii + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $65.00. Examines how establishing national parks, particularly Yosemite National Park (California), Yellowstone National Park (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming), and Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona), contributed to the creation of American national identity through technologies such as photography, painting, mapping, and fiction writing. From the post-Civil War era to the present.

Heringman, Noah. Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $47.50. Examines parallels between the development of geology as a legitimate field of scientific inquiry and expressions of appreciation for landforms and landscape aesthetics in English Romantic poetry during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Hutchinson, Dale L., Lynette Norr, and Mark Franklyn Teaford. Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast: Adaptation, Conflict, and Change. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xix + 237 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Anthropological study of Native American hunters and gatherers who lived along the Gulf Coast of Florida around 800 A.D. Examines remains and archaeological objects found at a massive burial site near Sarasota known as the Palmer Site to determine the health of these ancient peoples, their land use and natural resource utilization activities, and demographic trends.

Kull, Christian A. Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 324 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Paper $25.00. Discusses the impact of fire on the landscape of Madagascar. Topics covered include slash and burn agriculture, forest clearing, deforestation, light burning, forest fires, and the fire management policies of French colonial rulers and the Madagascar Forest Department. See especially chapter seven, "Fire Politics: A History of State Antifire Efforts," which documents fire politics from 1896 to the present.

Lewis, Michael L. Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947-1997. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. x + 305 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $26.00. Examines the degree to which the United States impacted the development of conservation policies and the rise of ecological science in India after World War II. Discusses such topics as globalization, wildlife biology, biological diversity conservation, animal ecology, nature reserves, and imperialism.

Lynn-Sherow, Bonnie. Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. vii + 186 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. $29.95. Examines the struggle over farming and ecological change in Logan, Blaine, and Caddo counties of Oklahoma territory by Kiowa Indians, white settlers, and black settlers from the end of the Civil War to the establishment of Oklahoma's statehood in 1907.

McCabe, Richard E., Bart W. O'Gara, and Henry M. Reeves. Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America. Wildlife Management Institute Book. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. xvii + 175. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. The hunting and use of pronghorn antelope in North America by indigenous populations from prehistoric times through the 1860s.

Mayhew, Robert J. Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description. Studies in Modern History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. vi + 426 pp. Bibliography, index. $85.00. On the relationship between Christianity and the practice of writing about nature and landscape in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Focuses especially on the role of English author and literary critic Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) in influencing cultural perceptions of nature.

Pickles, John. A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-coded World. New York: Routledge, 2004. xxii + 233 pp. Illustrations, photographs. Cloth $110.00, paper $29.95. Examines the ways in which cartographic theory, land surveying techniques, and mapmaking practices have impacted the ways in which human beings relate to their immediate environments and the world at large; sixteenth century to the present.

Sammons, Sandra Wallus. John and William Bartram: Travelers in Early America. Flagler Beach, Fla.: Ocean Publishing, 2004. xx + 118 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Cloth $19.95, paper $14.95. Biography of American naturalist John Bartram (1699-1777) and his son William Bartram (1739-1823). The two were early botanical explorers of the southeastern United States.

Sawyer, Suzana. Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. xiii + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Paper $21.95. On the political activism of Indians in Ecuador against oil exploration and drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon by the multinational corporation Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) in the 1990s.

Stradling, David, ed. Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xii + 110 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, index. Excerpts from texts on conservation issues published from the 1890s to the 1910s written by men and women who were prominently associated with the conservation movement or who played a more subdued role in promoting nature and natural resource conservation in the United States. Includes writings by Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938), Mabel Osgood Wright (1859–1934), William T. Hornaday (1854–1937), Samuel Gompers (1850–1924), Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), John Muir (1838–1914), and others.

Wayburn, Edgar, with Allison Alsup. Your Land and Mine: Evolution of a Conservationist. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2004. 319 pp. Illustrations, index. $35.00. The author reminisces about his life as a conservationist and environmental activist. Wayburn, a medical doctor by profession, served as president of the Sierra Club for five years in the 1960s and served on its board of directors almost continuously from 1957 to 1993. He was instrumental in the establishment of Redwoods National Park and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and was highly involved in conservation and environmental politics for much of the twentieth century.

Wilkening, Kenneth E. Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan: A History of Knowledge and Action toward Sustainability. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. vii + 322 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $19.00. Studies the history of acid rain in Japan from nineteenth-century copper mining to post-World War II industrialization and present transboundary pollution. Examines the cultural significance of acid rain and political aspects of the interplay between science and environmental policy.

Witzig, Fred T. Voyageurs National Park: The Battle to Create Minnesota's National Park. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. vii + 301 pp. Maps, notes, legislative chronology, bibliography, index. Paper $24.95. Legislative history of the campaign to create Minnesota's only national park from 1891 to 1975, focusing on the period from 1962 through 1975.

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