January 2002 (7:1)

Articles:

Hal Rothman, "A Decade in the Saddle: Confessions of a Recalcitrant Editor," 9-21.

Roderick P. Neumann, "The Postwar Conservation Boom in British Colonial Africa," 22-47.

Lars Östlund, Olle Zackrisson, and Greger Hörnberg, "Trees on the Border between Nature and Culture: Culturally Modified Trees in Boreal Sweden," 48-68.

Mark V. Barrow, Jr., "Science, Sentiment, and the Specter of Extinction: Reconsidering Birds of Prey during America's Interwar Years," 69-98.

Joshua Blu Buhs, "Dead Cows on a Georgia Field: Mapping the Cultural Landscape of the Post-World War II American Pesticide Controveries," 99-121.

Book Reviews:

Pacific Forest: A History of Resource Control and Contest in the Solomon Islands, c. 1800-1997. By Judith A. Bennett. Cambridge, England: White Horse Press, 2000. xvi + 512 pp. Reviewed by John Dargavel.

Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788. 2d ed. By Ann Young. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 2000. xvii + 243 pages. Reviewed by Tom McCarthy.

Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan. By Timothy S. George. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvi + 385 pp. Reviewed by Kazuto Oshio.

Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. By Shawn William Miller. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xiii + 325 pp. Reviewed by Allen W. Palmer.

African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Edited by William Weber, Lee J. T. White, Amy Vedder, and Lisa Naughton-Treves. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. xii + 588. Reviewed by Tobias J. Lanz.

Nature Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England since 1600. By T. C. Smout. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. xiii + 210 pp. Reviewed by Fiona Watson.

The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis. By Stephen Halliday. Stroud, England: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999 (paperback 2001). 210 pages. Reviewed by Raymond Smith.

The Little Ice Age. How Climate Made History 1300-1850. By Brian Fagan. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xxi + 246 pp. Reviewed by Paul Warde.

Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. By William James Burroughs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 298 pp. Reviewed by J. E. de Steiguer.

War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. By Edmund Russell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 315pp. Reviewed by Allan M. Winkler.

Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America. By Ted Steinberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxiii + 294 pp. Reviewed by Martin V. Melosi.

Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape. By Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. xv + 161 pp. Reviewed by Curt Leitz.

Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom. By Brian Black. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xii + 235 pp. Reviewed by Fredric L. Quivik.

Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. By Karl Jacoby. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xix + 305 pp. Reviewed by Theodore Catton.

Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park. By Timothy Rawson. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. xiv +326 pp. Reviewed by John C. Miles.

Millicoma: Biography of a Pacific Northwestern Forest. By Arthur V. Smyth. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2000. xix + 145 pp. and Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest. By James LeMonds. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2001. xix + 201 pp. Reviewed by David Beesley.

Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds. By Christopher Cokinos. New York: Tarcher/Putnam Books, 2000. 359 pp. Reviewed by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

Environmental Politics and Policy, 1960s-1990s. Edited by Otis L. Graham Jr., University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. ix + 178 pp. Reviewed by Neil M. Maher.

Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change. By Robert Gottlieb. Reviewed by Jennifer Price.

Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto. By Peter Huber. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxxi + 224 pp. Reviewed by Alan P. Loeb.