April 2004 (9:2)

Articles:

Harriet Ritvo, "Animal Planet," 204-220.

Georgina H. Endfield, Isabel Fernández Tejedo, and Sarah L. O'Hara, "Conflict and Cooperation: Water, Floods, and Social Response in Colonial Guanajuato, Mexico,"221-247.

Brett L. Walker, "Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf," 248-274.

Chad Montrie, "'I think Less of the Factory Than of My Native Dell’ : Labor, Nature, and the Lowell ‘Mill Girls, " 275-295.

Gallery:

Robert Marks on the Pearl River Delta, 296-299.

Peter C. Mancall on Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxford-Shire, 300-305.

Brian Black on the Copse at Gettysburg, 306-310.

Book Reviews:

The Atlas of US and Canadian Environmental History. Edited by Char Miller.   New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2003. 256 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, diagrams, index. Cloth $150.00. Reviewed by Brian Black.

Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape. Edited by Thomas Vale, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002), xv + 315 pp.; figures, boxes, tables, maps, bibliographies, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00. Reviewed by Dan Flores.

Where Land & Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. By Nancy Langston. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xiv+230 pp. Photographs, notes, selected bibliography, index. $26.95. Reviewed by Mark Madison.

Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975. By Evan Ray Ward. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxx + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. Cloth $45.00. Reviewed by Jared Orsi.

Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona’s Urban Environment. By Douglas E. Kupel. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxiv + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviewed by Bob Irvine.

Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West. By Steven C. Schulte. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xiii + 322 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Charles Coate.

The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall. By Stephen Craig Sturgeon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxii + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00. Reviewed by Charles Coate.

Draining the Great Oasis, An Environmental History of Murray County, Minnesota. Edited by Anthony J. Amato, Janet Timmerman, and Joseph A. Amato. Crossings Press. 2001. xix + 232 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, bibliography. Reviewed by Cary J. Mock.

Mr. Jefferson’s Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. By Roger G. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xv + 350 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $30.00. Reviewed by Benjamin R. Cohen.

Southern Counterpart to Lewis & Clark: The Freeman & Curtis Expedition of 1806. By Dan L. Flores. Revised edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xxi + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $19.95. Reviewed by Lynn Nelson.

States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940. By Stuart McCook. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xiv + 201 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $22.95. Reviewed by Karin Matchett.

Working in the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture. By William Conlogue. Studies in Rural Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ix + 230 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95, paper $18.95. Reviewed by Deborah Fitzgerald.

The Discovery of Global Warming. By Spencer R. Weart. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Reviewed by Michael Oppenheimer.

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Kathryn Morse. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. $29.95. Reviewed by Bruce J. Noble, Jr.

To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. By Chad Montrie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Xv + 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $18.95. Reviewed by Geoffrey Buckley.

Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe. Edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. ix + 237 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, list of contributors, index. Cloth $59.95. Reviewed by Nora Berend.

Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations. Edited by Terence Young and Robert Riley. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002. 300 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. $28.00. Reviewed by Herbert Gottfried.

An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books, 1780-1980. Compiled by Kenneth P. Czech. St. Cloud, Minn.: Land’s Edge Press, 2003. xviii + 254 pp. Plates, map, appendix, references, index. Cloth $65.00. Reviewed by Tobias J. Lanz.