January 2000 (5:1)

Articles:

Michael Bess, “Greening the Mainstream: Paradoxes of Antistatism and Anticonsumerism in the French Environmental Movement,” 6–26.

Douglas C. Sackman, “Nature’s Workshop: The Work Environment and Workers’ Bodies in California’s Citrus Industry,” 27–53.

Jerry C. Towle, “Authored Ecosystems: Livingston Stone and the Transformation of California Fisheries,” 54–74.

Chad Montrie, “Expedient Environmentalism: Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia and the United Mine Workers of America, 1945–1977,” 75–98.

Book Reviews:

Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West. By Hal K. Rothman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xi + 434 pp. Reviewed by Anne Hyde.

The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S. Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. xvi + 311 pp. Reviewed by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. By Sarah S. Elkind. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii+ 246 pp. Reviewed by Douglas R. Littlefield.

Empowering the West: Electrical Politics Before FDR. By Jay Brigham. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. ix + 211 pp. Reviewed by Donald C. Jackson.

A Sense of the American West: An Anthology of Environmental History. Edited by James E. Sherrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. x + 308 pp. Reviewed by Carlos A. Schwantes.

Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West. By Glenda Riley. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xviii + 279 pp. Reviewed by Polly Welts.

Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology, and the American West. Edited by Robert B. Keiter. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998. xviii + 178 pp. Reviewed by Kathryn Morse.

Fire on the Plateau: Conflict and Endurance in the American Southwest. By Charles Wilkinson. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999. xiv + 402 pp. Reviewed by Jared Farmer.

Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest. By Jack L. August. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999. xi + 290 pp. Reviewed by Byron Pearson.

Gila: The Life and Death of an American River. By Gregory McNamee. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 215 pp. Reviewed by Shelly Dudley.

Managing Multiple Uses on National Forests, 1905 to 1995: A 90-Year Learning Experience and It Isn’t Finished Yet. By John Fedkiw. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1998. xxi + 284 pp. Reviewed by Frank H. Wadsworth.

Talk and Log: Wilderness Politics in British Columbia. By Jeremy Wilson. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998. xxx + 452 pp. Reviewed by Neil S. Forkey.

The Appalachian Forest: A Search for Roots and Renewal. By Chris Bolgiano. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 1998. vii + 280 pp. Reviewed by Robert E. McFarland.

The Book of Nature: Natural History in the United States, 1825-1875. By Margaret Welch. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xiv + 232 pp. Reviewed by Thomas Altherr.

Great Camps of the Adirondacks. By Harvey H. Kaiser. Lincoln, Mass.: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1996. Xv + 240 pp. Reviewed by Brian Black.

Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living on Earth. By Bill McKibben. St. Paul, Minn.: Hungry Mind Press, 1995. xi + 237 pp. Reviewed by Brian Black.

Adirondack Explorations: Nature Writings of Verplanck Colvin. Edited by Paul Schaefer. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xxii + 234 pp. Reviewed by Brian Black.

The Adirondacks: A History of America’s First Wilderness. By Paul Schneider. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. xiii + 368 pp. Reviewed by Brian Black.

Imposing Wilderness: Struggles Over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa. By Roderick P. Neuman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii + 256 pp. Reviewed by Edward Steinhart.

Third World Political Ecology. By Raymond L. Bryant and Sinead Bailey. New York: Routledge, 1997. vii + 237 pp. Reviewed by David Aagesen.

The Earth Summit at Rio: Politics, Economics, and the Environment. By Ranee K. L. Panjabi. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xv + 392 pp. Reviewed by John D. Wirth.