Anderson, Terry L., and Donald R. Leal. Free Market Environmentalism. Revised ed. New York: Palgrave, 2001. viii + 241 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography. Cloth $59.95, paper $18.95. Twentieth-century economic theory regarding natural resources management and policy in the United States. Covers the timber industry, water utilization, fisheries management, outdoor recreation, and land utilization.

Appleyard, John. The W. T. Smith Lumber Company: A Chronicle. Pensacola, Fla.: Pace Printer, 2000. 349 pp. Illustrations. Covers events in the history of the W. T. Smith Lumber Company of Chapman, Alabama, from its founding in 1891 through its sale to a pulp and paper company in 1966.

Barlow, Connie. The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xi + 291 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $26.00. Investigates ecological relationships between plant and animal species, specifically studying the implication of extinctions during the Pleistocene era for dependent species.

Beeman, Randal S., and James A. Pritchard. A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. ix + 219 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Examines the history of alternative agriculture in the United States, beginning with its roots in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s through the late twentieth century, focusing on such components as land utilization, organic food production, soil conservation, and agricultural policy.

Bennett, Judith A. Pacific Forests: A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, c. 1800–1997. Cambridge, England: White Horse Press, 2000. xvi + 512 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $110.00. Examines human utilization of forests on the Solomon Islands from prehistoric times, particularly focusing on logging practices and plantation agriculture under the British colonial government in the nineteenth century and the development of the timber industry during the twentieth century.

Botkin, Daniel B., et al. Forces of Change: A New View of Nature. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2000. 256 pp. Illustrations, maps, list of contributors, bibliography. Heavily illustrated collection of essays on environmental change worldwide from ancient times through the twentieth century, discussing such topics as climate change, biodiversity, the tourist industry, population growth, and species extinction.

Calderón, Roberto R. Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880–1930. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2000. xix + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Covers such topics as: transnational origins of the Cohuila, Mexico, and Texas coal mining industries; the marketing of coal and coke produced by these companies; demographic analysis of the south Texas coal mines of Maverick and Webb Counties; technological changes within the industry; and working conditions and labor organization.

Coatsworth, Elizabeth, ed. The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence. Boston, Mass.: Nonpareil Books, 2000. viii + 198 pp. Selected works and correspondence of U.S. conservationist and nature writer Henry Beston (1888–1968).

Colten, Craig E., ed. Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. x + 272 pp. Figures, notes, list of contributors, index. Paper $19.95, cloth $45.00. Essays on the human impact on New Orleans, Louisiana, from land settlement in prehistoric times through industrial pollution in the late twentieth century.

Copeland, Claudia. Water Infrastructure Financing: History of EPA Appropriations. Report for Congress, 96–647. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, 2000. 1–18 pp. Tables, notes. Congressional appropriations for the federal program to aid municipal wastewater treatment plant construction, 1986–2001. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administers the program. Online resource available at http://www.cnie.org/nle/h2o-35.html as of 6/8/01.

Darst, Robert G. Smokestack Diplomacy: Cooperation and Conflict in East-West Environmental Politics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. xii + 300 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.95. Studies international efforts to curb water and air pollution and encourage nuclear safety in the U.S.S.R. and its successor states of Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Davis, Neil. Permafrost: A Guide to Frozen Ground in Transition. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. xvi + 351 pp. Illustrations, plates, glossary, bibliography, index. $35.95. Describes frozen ground phenomena, the landscapes that develop as the ground freezes and thaws, and how human being have adapted to these changes from prehistoric times through the twentieth century.

Dominy, Michèle D. Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand’s High Country. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. xii + 306 pp. Figures, tables, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $69.00, paper $27.95. Discusses sense of place among Anglo-Celtic settlers in New Zealand during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on land rights, landscape change, and indigenous land claims.

Dormandy, Thomas. The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. New York: New York University Press, 2000. xiv + 433 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Covers such topics as origins of and remedies for the disease, treatment by “quacks,” health policies, and perceptions of tuberculosis in Europe and the United States. Seventeenth through twentieth centuries.

Eddison, Jill. Romney Marsh: Survival on a Frontier. Stroud, England: Tempus, 2000. 176 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Studies significant impacts of England’s coastal wetland Romney Marsh on the human inhabitants of the area from prehistoric times through the twentieth century, focusing on water engineering during Roman occupation and climatic change during the Middle Ages.

Fairfax, Sally K., and Darla Guenzler. Conservation Trusts. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xii + 255 pp. Abbreviations, notes, index. Cloth $40.00, paper $19.95. Discusses the manner in which both government and nongovernment agencies develop and manage trusts used to address conservation issues and resolve environmental disputes in the United States. Twentieth century.

Fickle, James E. Mississippi Forests and Forestry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. xiv + 347 pp. Maps, illustrations, index. $35.00. Changes in Mississippi’s forests from prehistoric times through the twentieth century, discussing such topics as Native American forest use, land settlement, deforestation and other impacts of the timber industry, reforestation efforts of the pulp and paper industry, and methods of forest management.

Gaskell, Jeremy. Who Killed the Great Auk? New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 227 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $25.00. The author explores possible reasons behind the extinction of the seafowl and the interest of Victorian-era naturalists in its disappearance that led to the passage of protection legislation. Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Gordon, Robert B. A Landscape Transformed: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, Connecticut. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. x + 159 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95. Examines the landscape and other environmental changes resulting from the development of the iron industry in the Salisbury region of Connecticut, eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Particularly focuses on changes ensuing from technological advances in the industry.

Gottlieb, Robert. Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. xvii + 396 pp. Index. $29.95. The author argues that environmentalism in the United States lays the groundwork for social as well as environmental change, makes industries more socially responsive, and makes communities more livable. Includes a twentieth-century history of perspectives on land, natural resources, labor, and industry.

Grove, A. T., and Oliver Rackham. The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. 384 pp. Plates, illustrations, bibliography, index. $75.00. Considers such factors as climate change, weather events, erosion, and agricultural practices upon the desertification of the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times through the twentieth century.

Horden, Peregrine, and Nicholas Purcell. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 761 pp. Maps, abbreviations, bibliographical essays, bibliography, index. Paper $36.95. History of the environmental changes of the Mediterranean region during prehistoric, ancient, and medieval times, focusing on the impacts of ethnography, technological development, and religious beliefs.

Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xix + 305 pp. Plates, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $39.95. Examines the poaching, fishing, foraging, and arson committed by poor whites and Native Americans on Adirondack State Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Grand Canyon National Park despite government regulations forbidding these activities. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Johnsgard, Paul A. Prairie Birds: Fragile Splendor in the Great Plains. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xvii + 331 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, charts, glossary, bibliography, indexes. $29.95. Natural history of bird species populating the Great Plains region of the United States from the Mesozoic era through the twentieth century, discussing grasslands ecology, bird conservation, and the impact of human activities such as agriculture and livestock raising.

Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. 464 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Examines social aspects such as race and gender relations during the California gold rush of the nineteenth century, examining mining camp and community lifestyles.

Kates, James. Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Region. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xix + 207 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. History of the forest region of the Great Lakes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, describing deforestation due to logging and land utilization practices in the nineteenth century and reforestation efforts spurred by forester Parish Storrs Lovejoy and conservationist Harold Titus in the twentieth century. Also discusses the impact of recreation and zoning on the reforested land.

Kemp, Emory Leland. The Great Kanawha Navigation. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. xii + 300 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Overview of the construction of a series of locks and dams on West Virginia’s Kanawha River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Lawlor, Mary. Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xii + 224 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Examines romanticized perceptions of the western United States through the work of writers Jack London (1876–1916), Stephen Crane (1871–1900), Frank Norris (1870–1900) and Willa Cather (1875–1947), photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868–1954), and historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932).

Ma, Xiaoying, and Leonard Ortolano. Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xviii + 209 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. Examines the Chinese government’s late-twentieth-century attempts to regulate industrial pollution in waterways through environmental protection law and legislation.

Mackie, Richard Somerset. Island Timber: A Social History of the Comox Logging Company, Vancouver Island. Victoria, B.C.: Sono Nis Press, 2000. 309 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. British Columbia, 1900s through 1930s. Includes many photographs and reminiscences of loggers.

Manning, Richard. Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001. 210 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. $24.95. Examines the influence of industrial development and urbanization on the United States Pacific Northwest, focusing on such environmental concerns as decline in salmon population, the impact of hydroelectricity, deforestation, and the results of mass tourism. Primarily twentieth century.

Marshall, Alex. How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. xxiii + 243 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Describes the manner in which the fields and forest surrounding metropolitan Portland, Oregon, operate as a growth boundary and add to the success of the city. 1950s through 1990s.

McNeill, J. R. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. xxvi + 421 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Explores the twentieth-century history of such environmental concerns as acid rain, forest and wildlife management, soil pollution, water pollution, air pollution, climate change, water management, and land utilization.

Meyer, William B. Americans and Their Weather. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 278 pp. Bibliographical notes, index. $35.00. Examines the impact of climate upon the population of the United States from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries, considering such factors as human health, environmental determinism, and agriculture.

Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld. A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737–1832. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xviii + 233 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Covers topics such as the fur trade and the creation of economic relations, the development of lead mining, and the lead rush that lead to United States government officials removal of Native Americans from their lands.

Myllyntaus, Timo, and Mikko Saikku, eds. Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History. 2d ed. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. xix + 166 pp. Figures, tables, list of contributors, index. Cloth $39.95, paper $16.95. Collection of essays addressing topics in historiography and intellectual history; changes in forests and tropical forests in Thailand, Finland, and the United States; and the role of the environment in human history. Stone Age through the twentieth century.

National Assessment Synthesis Team of the US Global Change Research Program, ed. Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Political Variability and Change Overview Report. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 154 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary. Paper, $16.95. Examines the effects of global warming on human health, environmental health, the weather, and the economy of the United States throughout the twentieth century.

Novotny, Patrick. Where We Live, Work, and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. xviii + 115 pp. Bibliography, index. Case studies of community environmental justice movements in Los Angeles, California; Warren County, North Carolina; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Geismer and New Orleans, Louisiana. Late twentieth century.

Parminter, John. Tom Wright: Recollections of a Pioneer Forester and Tree Farmer. Victoria, B.C.: Forest History Association of British Columbia in cooperation with Trafford Publishing, 2000. xiii + 106 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Biography of forester Tom Wright (b. 1916), describing his work for various timber companies in British Columbia, the University of British Columbia, and as a private tree farmer.

Pickstone, John V. Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xii + 271 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $20.00. From the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Includes botanical and zoological classification, natural theology, and the development of pharmaceuticals.

Radkau, Joachim. Natur und Macht: eine Weltgeschichte der Umwelt. Munich, Germany: C. H. Beck, 2000. 438 pp. Bibliography, index. “Nature and Power: A World History of the Environment.” Human impacts on nature from ancient times through the twentieth century, focusing on industrialization of practices such as agriculture, water management, and forest management. Text in German.

Reiger, John F. American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation. 3d ed. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2001. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $24.95. Argues that sport hunters and fishermen were at the forefront of the conservation movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Includes a chapter on Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) and the sportsman-conservationist ideal.

Richardson, David M., ed. Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 527 pp. Illustrations, list of contributors, glossary, indexes. Cloth $160.00, paper $54.95. Scientific examination of the natural history and dispersal of pine species worldwide from ancient times through the twentieth century. Discusses evolution of species, the impact of forest fires and disease upon the trees, and human utilization of the pine.

Richardson, Dennis. Forestry, People and Places: Essays and Presents upon Various Occasions Written for the Entertainment of the Author and Printed for the Amusement of His Grandchildren and a Few Friends Prejudiced in His Favour. Rotorua, New Zealand: Business Media Services Limited, 2000. ii + 347 pp. Figures, illustrations, maps, index. Paper $39.95. Collected essays, articles, and papers of New Zealand forester Dennis Richardson, describing his experiences with forest management worldwide. Twentieth century.

Roberts, Brian. American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cultural history of the California gold rush of the 1840s and 1850s, comparing the stereotype of the “49ers” with the social reality of the literate, white-collar Easterners who dominated the rush.

Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Health and Disease in Human History: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 345 pp. List of contributors, bibliographical references. Collection of essays on the role of nutrition in epidemic diseases and the importance of water and sanitation to mortality rates and urbanization in England and Japan. Also discusses the impacts of smallpox epidemics in Brazil and Mexico. Sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Rothman, Hal K. Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. 215 pp. Bibliographical notes, index. Paper $12.95. Growth of the environmental movement in the United States from its roots in late nineteenth century thought throughout the twentieth century, discussing the beginnings of forest management, industrial pollution, toxic waste management, population growth, and other environmental concerns.

Russell, Colin A., ed. Chemistry, Society and Environment: A New History of the British Chemical Industry. Cambridge, England: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000. xvi + 372 pp. Indexes. Collection of writings by various authors on the impact of the chemical industry in Great Britain on human and environmental health from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Includes the petroleum industry, pharmaceutical industry, iron and steel industry, and copper, lead, zinc, and tin mining.

Russell, Miles. Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain. Stroud, England: Tempus, 2000. 160 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Using archaeological evidence, the author explores the process and nature of flint extraction and the significance of mining in Great Britain during the Neolithic period.

Salmon, Michael A. The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 432 pp. Illustrations, plates, bibliography, index. $35.00. Heavily illustrated history of butterfly collecting in Great Britain from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, describing equipment used, the effects of collecting on butterfly populations, and conservation policies. Includes biographical sketches of collectors.

Shapiro, Judith. Mao’s War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 287 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $59.95, paper $18.95. The author argues that environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, and ill-conceived water engineering projects arose in China due to the attitudes toward nature reflected in the policies of Communist Party leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976).

Shurts, John. Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in its Social and Legal Context, 1880s–1930s. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. 333 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Detailed analysis of the issues leading to the 1908 Winters v. United States Supreme Court decision concerning the preservation of water rights of the Ute Indians and the roles this ruling had in litigation over water rights and uses along Montana’s Milk River. Also available at http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=25994 (6/8/01).

Thornton, Joe. Pandora’s Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy. Cambridge, Mass.: mit Press, 2000. xii + 599 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. The author considers the impact of organochlorines, industrial pollutants resulting from the manufacture of plastics, paper, and pesticides, upon human health in the twentieth century. Discusses environmental regulations and policies worldwide concerning this issue.

Truett, Joe C., and Stephen R. Johnson, eds. The Natural History of an Arctic Oil Field: Development and the Biota. San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 2000. xvi + 422 pp. Illustrations, list of contributors, maps, bibliography, index. Collection of essays examining the impact of petroleum resource development on the animals, fish, and vegetation of Alaska’s Arctic tundra during the twentieth century.

Vera, F. W. M. Grazing Ecology and Forest History. New York: CABI Publishing, 2000. xix + 506 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $100.00. Examines landscape changes throughout Europe from prehistoric times through the eighteenth century, utilizing pollen analysis, vegetation patterns, and other historical evidence of the forest canopy. Focuses especially on human impact on the landscape from the Middle Ages to 1900.

Vitebsky, Piers. Shamanism. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. 184 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Paper, $12.95. Investigates the roles of shamans and shamanic religions worldwide from prehistoric times through the twentieth century. Discusses the utilization of medicinal plants.

Waller, Philip, ed. The English Urban Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 352 pp. Illustrations, plates, maps, list of contributors, bibliographical references, index. Examines landscape change resulting from urbanization and industrialization of English cities. Ancient times through the twentieth century.

Weber, William A., ed. The American Cockerell: A Naturalist’s Life, 1866–1948. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000. xxiii + 352 pp. Chronology, bibliographical notes, index. $29.95. Collected papers on entomology (especially bee species), botany, philosophy, and the career of naturalist T. D. A. Cockerell.

Wood, Don A. Florida’s Fragile Wildlife: Conservation and Management. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. xxiv + 211 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, list of contributors, index. $39.95. Reviews wildlife management and conservation plans for the endangered species of Florida, discussing law and legislation pertaining to the topic and the natural history of several animal and bird species. Twentieth century.

Woodard, Colin. Ocean’s End: Travels through Endangered Seas. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xiv + 300 pp. Index. Paper $26.00. Examines the impact of water pollution, overfishing, and global warming on the ecology of the world’s oceans and seas. Primarily twentieth century.

Woodward, Ann. British Barrows: A Matter of Life and Death. Stroud, England: Tempus, 2000. 176 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Archaeological survey of Bronze-Age burial mounds and henges upon the landscape of the United Kingdom.

Young, Ann. Environmental Change in Australia since 1788. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xvii + 243 pp. Illustrations, figures, plates, tables, bibliography, index. Paper $35.00. Covers various topics in the fields of nature conservation, agriculture, forest management, the mining industry, marine and coastal management, urbanization, and water supply and use.

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