April 1999 (4:2)

Articles:

Monica M. van Beusekom, "From Underpopulation to Overpopulation: French Perceptions of Population, Environment, and Agricultural Development in French Soudan (Mali), 1900-1960," 198-219.

Christopher A. Conte, "Colonial Science and Ecological Change: Tanzania's  Mlalo Basin, 1888-1946," 220-44.

Sarah T. Phillips, "Lessons From the Dust Bowl: Dryland Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the United States and South Africa, 1900-1950," 245-66.

Book Reviews:

Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. By Robert J. Duffy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. vii + 304 pp. Reviewed by Scott Hughes.

Critical Masses: Opposition to nuclear power in California, 1958-1978. By Thomas R. Wellock. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xii + 333 pp. Reviewed by Scott Hughes.

Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant. By Joan Aron. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xv + 184 pp. Reviewed by Scott Hughes.

The Atomic West. Edited by Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. x + 286 pp. Reviewed by John Wills.

Explorations in Environmental History. By Samuel P. Hays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xl + 584 pp. Reviewed by Jeffrey K. Stine.

The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945. By Hal Rothman. Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998. xiii + 219 pp. Reviewed by Thomas R. Huffman.

Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History. Edited by Char Miller and Hal K. Rothman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. xvi + 368 pp. Reviewed by Robin W. Winks.

American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics. Edited by Char Miller. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xiv + 290 pp. Reviewed by William deBuys.

A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin. By Michael P. Cohen. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998. xxii + 308 pp. Reviewed by Michael P. Branch.

How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History. By Stephen J. Pyne. New York: Viking, 1998. xviii + 199 pp. Reviewed by James Aton.

Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. 2d ed. By Thurman Wilkins. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xvi + 315 pp. Reviewed by Peter Boag.

The Great New Wilderness Debate: An Expansive Collection of Writings Defining Wilderness From John Muir to Gary Snyder. Edited by J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xiv + 697 pp. Reviewed by Paul Sutter.

Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser. By Richard C. Bocking. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. ix + 294 pp. Reviewed by Joseph E. Taylor III.

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. By Ronald L. Lewis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xv + 348 pp. Reviewed by John Alexander.

Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940. By Robert Gough. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. viii + 295 pp. Reviewed by Gregory Summers.

Guided With a Steady Hand: The Cultural Landscape of a Rural Texas Park. By Dan K. Utley and James Steely. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 1998. xxiv + 192 pp. Reviewed by Neil Maher.

Advances in Historical Ecology. Edited by William Balee. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xvi + 429 pp. Reviewed by Sterling Evans.

To Heal the Earth: Selected Writings of Ian L. McHarg. Edited by Ian L. McHarg and Frederick R. Steiner. Foreword by Robert D. Yaro. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998.  xiv + 380 pp. Reviewed by Herbert Gottfried.