January 2003 (8:1)

Articles:

David E. Nye, “Technology, Nature, and American Origin Stories,” 8-24.

Linda Nash, “Finishing Nature: Harmonizing Bodies and Environments in Late-Nineteenth-Century California,” 25-52.

Jack E. Davis, “‘Conservation Is Now a Dead Word’: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Transformation of American Environmentalism,” 53-76.

Andrew Salvador Mathews, “Suppressing Fire and Memory: Environmental Degradation and Political Restoration in the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca, 1887-2001,” 77-108.

Paul Sutter, “What Can U.S. Environmental Historians Learn from Non-U.S. Environmental Historiography?” 109-129.

Book Reviews:

History and Climate Change: A Eurocentric Perspective. By Neville Brown. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. xiii + 391pp. $120.00. Reviewed by J. R. McNeil.

El Niño in History: Storming through the Ages. By César N. Caviedes. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. xiv + 279pp. $24.95. Reviewed by J. R. McNeil. 

The Colonial Earth. By Tim Bonyhady. Carleton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. xi + 433 pp. Cloth $54.95. Reviewed by Thomas R. Dunlap. 

Negotiating Nature: Culture, Power, and Environmental Argument. Edited by Alf Hornborg and Gísli Pálsson. Lund Studies in Human Ecology, 2. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 2000. 224 pp. Reviewed by Sverker Sörlin. 

Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers. By Paul E. Little. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xv + 298 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00. Reviewed by Jose Drummond. 

Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Louis A. Perez. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. x + 199 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $49.95. Reviewed by Pedro M. Pruna-Goodgall and Reinaldo Funes. 

Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba. By Sergio Diaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez López. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. xiii + 328 pp. Maps, tables, notes, references, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $22.95. Reviewed by Pedro M. Pruna-Goodgall and Reinaldo Funes. 

Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970. By Alan MacEachern. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. xiv + 330 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by D. Scott Slocombe. 

The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. By Adam Rome. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvi+299 pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, index. Cloth $54.95, paper $19.95. Reviewed by Christopher Sellers. 

Fire: A Brief History. By Stephen J. Pyne. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001 xvii + 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Paper $18.95. Reviewed by William C. Fischer. 

Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910. By Stephen J. Pyne. New York: Viking, 2001. xiii + 322 pp. Plates, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $25.95. Reviewed by Reviewed by William C. Fischer. 

Understanding Soil Change: Soil Sustainability over Millennia, Centuries, and Decades. By Daniel D. Richter, Jr. and Daniel Markewitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. vii + 255 pp. $69.95. Reviewed by Neil M. Maher. 

Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Region. By James Kates. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2001. xix + 207 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Adam M. Sowards. 

Hard Water: Politics and Water Supply in Milwaukee, 1870-1995. By Kate Foss-Mollan. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2001. xi + 218 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $36.95. Reviewed by Dr. Carolyn G. Shapiro-Shapin. 

Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement & the Conservation Library. By Andrew Glenn Kirk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xix + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Reviewed by Jared Farmer. 

Forests Under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest. Edited by Christopher J. Huggard and Arthur R. Gómez. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2001. xxxiv + 307 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, abbreviations, list of contributors, bibliographies, index. $40.00. Reviewed byNancy Langston. 

Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests: A Photographic Interpretation of Ecological Change since 1849. By George E. Gruell. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press, 2001. xv + 238 pp. Illustrations, plates, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper $20.00. Reviewed by James Feldman. 

Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West. By Eric W. Mogren. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. x + 241 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.95. Reviewed by Hugh S. Gorman. 

Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier. By Susan Kollin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xvi + 224 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. Reviewed by Karen Oslund.

The State and Nature: Voices Heard, Voices Unheard in America’s Environmental Dialogue. By Jeanne Nienaber Clarke and Hanna J. Cortner. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002. $41.00. Reviewed by Otis L. Graham, Jr.

In Nature’s Name: An Anthology of Women’s Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930. Edited by Barbara T. Gates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,2002. Xxvi + 673 pp. Illustrations, chronology, biographical sketches, bibliography. Cloth $75.00; paper $27.95. Reviewed by Linda Lear.

At Home on This Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women’s Nature Writing. Edited by Lorraine Anderson and Thomas S. Edwards. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2002. Xi + 404 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth $60.00; paper $30.00. Reviewed by Linda Lear.