January 2007 (12:1)

Articles:

Brian Donahue. “Another Look from Sanderson’s Farm: A Perspective on New England Environmental History and Conservation.” 9-34.
 
Thomas J. Campanella. “'Mark Well the Gloom': Shedding Light on the Great Dark Day of 1780.” 35-58.
 
Mart A. Stewart. “From King Cane to King Cotton: Razing Cane in the Old South.” 59-79.
 
Ted Moore. “Democratizing the Air: The Salt Lake Women's Chamber of Commerce and Air Pollution, 1936-1945.” 80-106.
 
Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde. “The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History: A Re-reading of the Field.” 107-130.

Gallery:

Marilynn S. Olson, Donald W. Olson, and Russell L. Doescher.  "On The Blood-Red Sky of Munch's The Scream.” 131-135.

Sources:

Neil Macdonald.  "On Epigraphic Records: A Valuable Resource in Reassessing Flood Risk and Long-term Climate Variability.” 136-140.

Interview:

Mark Cioc and Char Miller.  "Hal K. Rothman.” 141-153.

Book Reviews:

 “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History. Edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xiii + 271. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95. Reviewed by Angela M. Leonard.

Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice. Edited by Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall. Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Lexington Books, 2006. xxiii + 433 pages. Bibliographical references, index. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by Earthea Nance.

 

Packing Them In: An Archeology of Environmental Racism In Chicago, 1865-1954. By Sylvia Hood Washington. Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Lexington Books, 2005. x + 213 pages. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $60.00, paper $19.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth Blum.

The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. By William P. Jones. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xv + 235 pp. Illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $20.00. Reviewed by Mary Ellen Wilson.

The Mediterranean: An Environmental History. By J. Donald Hughes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. Nature and Human Societies Series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. xx + 330 pages. Maps, index, bibliography. Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by J. R. McNeill.

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: an Environmental History. By Don Garden. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. Nature and Human Societies Series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. xvii + 398 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographic essay, index. $85.00. Reviewed by Libby Robin.

Southern United States: An Environmental History. By Donald E. Davis, with Craig E. Colten, Megan Kate Nelson, Barbara L. Allen, and Mikko Saikku. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Nature and Human Societies Series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. xxii + 409 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.  Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by Paul S. Sutter.

Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry. By Karni R. Perez. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xv+263 pp. Bibliographical references, index. Paper $22.95. Reviewed by Michael J. Chiarappa.

Paradise Lost: The Environmental History of Florida. Edited by Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xii + 420 pp. Illustrations, photographs, graphs, map, notes, index. $24.95. Reviewed by Cynthia Melendy.

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. By Matthew Mulcahy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 257 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $45.00. Reviewed by Anthony N. Penna.

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. By William F. Ruddiman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 202 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $24.95. Reviewed by Jan Oosthoek.

Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow. By Nadja Drost, filmmaker. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. 66 minutes. DVD or VHS. $348.00. Reviewed by Roger Hamilton.

O Mito Moderno da Natureza Intocada [The Modern Myth of Untouched Nature]. By Antonio Carlos Diegues. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Hucitec Ltda., 4th ed. 2002. 176 pp. Bibliography. $13.14. Reviewed by Roger Hamilton.

Germany’s Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History. Edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. v + 266 pp. Map, notes, index. Cloth $54.95. Reviewed by John Broich.

John Burroughs and the Place of Nature. By James Perrin Warren. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xiii + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95.  Reviewed by J. Brooks Flippen.

Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. By Mark Harvey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xviii + 325 pages. Cloth $35.00. Reviewed by James Pritchard.

The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film. By Steve Dunsky, Ann Dunsky, and David Steinke, filmmakers. Washington, DC: U.S. Forest Service, 2005. 3 DVD Set. 2 hours. $18; The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History. By James G. Lewis. Durham, NC: The Forest History Society, 2006. Cloth $29.95, paper $19.95. Reviewed by Brian Donahue.

Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control. Karen M. O’Neill. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxi + 278 pp. Tables, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95. Reviewed by Martin Reuss.

Environmental Public Health Policy for Asbestos on Schools: Unintended Consequences. By Jacqueline Karnell Corn. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2000. 141 pp. Cloth $69.95.  Reviewed by William Kovarik 

Killing Animals. By the Animal Studies Group. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 217 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00. Reviewed by Harriet Ritvo.