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April 1998 (3:2)

Articles:

Paul Sabin, "Searching for Middle Ground: Native Communities and Oil Extraction in the Northern Central Ecuadorian Amazon, 1967-1993," pp. 144-68.

Myrna Santiago, "Rejecting Progress in Paradise: Huastecs, the Environment, and the Oil Industry in Veracruz, Mexico, 1900-1935," pp. 169-88.

Nancy Quam-Wickham, "Cities Sacrificed on the Altar of Oil: Popular Opposition to Oil Development in 1920s Los Angeles," pp. 189-209.

Brian Black, "Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus: Re-creating the Industrial Process Through the Landscape of Pennsylvania's Oil Boom," pp. 210-29.

Book Reviews:

Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology. Edited by David Macauley. New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1996. viii + 355 pp. Reviewed by Mark Stoll.

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. By Linda Lear. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1997. xviii + 634 pp. Reviewed by Gerald Markowitz.

Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. By Claudia Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 289 pp. Reviewed by Allison L. Hepler.

Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. By Mark Stoll. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. xii + 276 pp. Reviewed by Philip D. Jordan.

The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture, and European Expansion. By David Arnold. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996. viii + 199 pp. Reviewed by Paul F. Starrs.

Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920. By Donald J. Pisani. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xii + 273 pp. Reviewed by Dale D. Goble.

Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. By Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, and Margery Post Abbott. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1997. x + 210 pp. Reviewed by Matthew Klingle.

A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson. By David Backes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. xvi + 387 pp. Reviewed by John Miles.

Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol. By Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xx + 234 pp. Reviewed by Michael Edmonds.

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite. By Marjorie Hope Nicholson. Reprint of the 1959 edition published by Cornell University Press. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. xix + 403 pp. Reviewed by Louise Westling.

Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness. By Paul Schullery. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. 338 pp. Reviewed by James Pritchard.

Energy and the Making of Modern California. By James C. Williams. Akron, Oh.: University of Akron Press, 1997. xviii + 465 pp. Reviewed by Michael Black.

Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment. Edited by Jesse Ausubel and Dale Langford. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. x + 214 pp. Reviewed by Indur Goklany.

Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge. By Joel Simon. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. x + 275 pp. Reviewed by Lane Simonian.


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