January 2008 (13:1)

Articles:

Thomas R. Cox. “A Tale of Two Journals: Fifty Years of Environmental History—and Its Predecessors,” 9-40.

Nancy Langston. “The Retreat from Precaution: Regulating Diethylstilbestrol (DES), Endocrine Disruptors, and Environmental Health,” 41-65.

Glenn M. Grasso. “What Appeared Limitless Plenty: The Rise and Fall of the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Halibut Fishery,” 66-91.

James Murton. “Creating Order: The Liberals, the Landowners, and the Draining of Sumas Lake, British Columbia,” 92-125.

Gallery:

Marguerite S. Shaffer. “On the Environmental Nude,” 126-139.

Interview:

Donald Worster, 140-155.

Book Reviews:

Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. By Alfred W. Crosby. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. xv + 192 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth $23.95. Reviewed by Richard Tucker.

The Callendar Effect: The Life and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the Scientist Who Established the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change. By James Rodger Fleming. Boston: American Meteorological Society, 2007. xvi + 155 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Mark Carey.

Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate. Edited by James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. xx + 264 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, and index. Cloth $39.95. Reviewed by Mark Carey.

Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. Edited by Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2007. xvi + 406 pp. Maps, figures, tables, index. Paper $39.95. Reviewed by Pekka Hämäläinen.

The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Animals, History, Culture Series. xi +242 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, index. $50.00. Reviewed by Brian Black.

Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. By Julie Sze. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. x + 282 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, references, index. Paper $24.00. Reviewed by Elizabeth Blum.

Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945–1972. By Paul Charles Milazzo. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Derek Hoff.

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men. By Renee Corona Kolvet and Victoria Ford. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xxi + 200 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Neil M. Maher.

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona’s Rim Country: Working in the Woods. By Robert J. Moore. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xvi + 156 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95.Reviewed by Neil M. Maher.

Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History. By Anne Mitchell Whisnant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xviii + 434 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Margaret Lynn Brown.

Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington’s National Parks. By David Louter. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. xvii + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $35.00. Reviewed by John Herron.

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. By Jake Kosek. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 380 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $23.95. Reviewed by William deBuys.

Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany. By Paul Warde. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 392. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $99.00. Reviewed by Martin Knoll.

Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape. By Katrina Z. S. Schwartz. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xvii + 288 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $27.95. Reviewed by Eagle Glassheim.

Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World (19th-20th Centuries). Edited by Marco Armiero. Naples: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Istituto de Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo, 2006. 237pp. €25.00. Reviewed by J. R. McNeill.

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. By Aaron Sachs. New York: Viking Press, 2006. xii + 445 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth $25.95. Reviewed by Sterling Evans.

The Maya Tropical Forest: People, Parks, and Ancient Cities. By James D. Nations. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2006. xviii + 323 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.95. Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey.

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. By Linda Lear. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007. xix + 584 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $30.00. Reviewed by Ann Greene.

Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac. By Julianne Lutz Newton. Washington, DC, Covelo, and London: Island Press. xvii + 483 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $32.95. Reviewed by Gregory J. Dehler.

Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Edited By Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. 490 pp. Notes, index. Cloth $130.00. Reviewed by Verena Winiwarter.

Um Sopro de Destruição: Pensamento Político e Crítica Ambiental No Brasil Escravista, 1786-1888 [A Destructive Wind: Political Thought and Environmental Criticism in Slave Brazil, 1786-1888]. By José Augusto Pádua. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2002. 318 pp. Bibliography. Paper $24.00. Reviewed by Regina Horta Duarte.

The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America. By Ben A. Minteer. Cambridge and London, England: MIT Press, 2006. viii + 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $28.00. Reviewed by Jordan Kleiman.

Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forest of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. By Cynthia Radding. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xx + 431. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $24.95. Reviewed by John Soluri.

Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia. Edited by Gunnel Cederlof and Kalayanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xiii + 399 pp. Bibliography, photographs, maps, charts, index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by Erik Solberg.

All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950. By Robert E. Kohler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, index. Cloth $35.00. Reviewed by Thomas R. Dunlap.

Saving Nature’s Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity. By Timothy J. Farnham. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xii + 276 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. Cloth $45.00. Reviewed by Philip J. Pauly.

Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia. By Adrian Franklin. Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2006. viii + 262 pp. Notes, references, index. Paper $30. Reviewed by Don Garden.

The Culture of Hunting in Canada. Edited by Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2006. x + 276 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliographies, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $32.95. Reviewed by John F. Reiger.

River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin. By Stephen Most. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. xxxiv + 293 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and sources, and index. Paper $22.50. Reviewed by Coll Thrush.

The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. By Trey Berry, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xxxvi +248 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Michael Pierce.

A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West. By Philip L. Jackson and Robert Kuhlken. Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO,  New York, Toronto, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. xv + 265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Paper $29.95. Reviewed by Sarah Phillips.

Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town. By David Robertson. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. Mining the American West series. xiv + 216. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by Kent Curtis.

Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xx + 370 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Herbin.