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April 2000 (5:2)

Articles:

Maureen Flanagan, Introduction: “Environmental Justice in the City: A Theme for Urban Environmental History,” 159–64.

Angela Gugliotta , “Class, Gender, and Coal Smoke: Gender Ideology and Environmental Injustice in Pittsburgh, 1868–1914,” 165–93.

Harold L. Platt, “Jane Addams and the Ward Boss Revisited: Class, Politics, and Public Health in Chicago, 1890–1930,” 194–222.

Dolores Greenberg , “Reconstructing Race and Protest: Environmental Justice in New York City,” 223–50.

Book Reviews:

A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev. By Douglas Weiner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv + 556 pp. Reviewed by D. J. Peterson.

A History of the Australian Environment Movement. By Drew Hutton and Libby Connors. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xi + 324 pp. Reviewed by Tom Brooking.

True Gardens of the Gods: California-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860–1930. By Ian Tyrrell. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Reviewed by Fredric L. Quivik.

Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station. By Herbert Guthrie-Smith. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxiv + 464 pp. Reviewed by Thomas Isern.

Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World. By Barbara T. Gates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xv + 293 pp. Reviewed by Virginia Scharff.

Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy. By Richard N. L. Andrews. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. xii + 463 pp. Reviewed by William L. Andreen.

Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. By David Stradling. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Reviewed by Adam Rome.

Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming. By Gale E. Christianson. New York: Walker and Company, 1999. xiii + 305 pp. Reviewed by David Stradling.

The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk through the Nuclear Age. By Karl Z. Morgan with Ken Peterson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xvii + 218 pp. Reviewed by M. Joshua Silverman.

The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice. By Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. x + 191 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Hurley.

Nature’s Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives. By Anthony N. Penna. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xvi + 300 pp. Reviewed by David C. Hsiung.

The Everglades: An Environmental History. By David McCally. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. xxii + 215 pp. Reviewed by Ann Vileisis.

Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri. By Robert Kelley Schneiders. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xiii + 314 pp. Reviewed by Ed Marston.

Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country. By Jared Farmer. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. 312 pp. Reviewed by Andrew M. Honker.

Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin. Edited by Kimball T. Harper, Larry L. St. Clair, Kaye H. Thorne, and Wilford M. Hess. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1999. viii + 294 pp. Reviewed by M. Guy Bishop.

Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920–1950. By Craig Miner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii + 228 pp. Reviewed by Tim Lehman.

The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History. By Christopher McGrory Klyza and Stephen C. Trombulak. Hanover, N.H.: Middlebury College Press; University Press of New England, 1999. xii + 240 pp. Reviewed by Scott Anderson.

Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. By Mark Spence. New York: Oxford Unversity Press, 1999. viii + 190 pp. Reviewed by Dan Flores.

The Fish and Wildlife Job on the National Forests: A Century of Game and Fish Conservation, Habitat Protection, and Ecosystem Management. By Theodore Catton and Lisa Mighetto. Washington, D.C.: USDA Forest Service, 1998. vii + 455 pp. Reviewed by Thomas G. Alexander.

The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. By Christoph Irmscher. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 354 pp. Reviewed by Thomas P. Slaughter.


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