January 1996 (1:1)

Articles:

Samuel P. Hays, "Comment: The Trouble with Bill Cronon's Wilderness," pp. 29-32.

Michael P. Cohen, "Comment: Resistance to Wilderness," pp. 33-42.

Thomas R. Dunlap, "Comment: But What Did You Go Out into the Wilderness to See?" pp. 43-46.

William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness: A Response," pp. 47-55.

Robert B. Marks, "Commercialization Without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China, 1550-1850," pp. 56-82.

José Drummond, "The Garden in the Machine: An Environmental History of Brazil's Tijuca Forest," pp. 83-104.

Book Reviews:

Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth. By Peter Marshall. New York: Paragon House, 1994. xii + 513 pp. Reviewed by Stephen Simpson.

Historical Ecology: Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscapes. Edited by Carole L. Crumley. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press, 1994. xiv + 284 pp. Reviewed by Stephen Simpson.

Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians. By Scott Weidensaul. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994. xii + 276 pp. Reviewed by Robert Benton.

Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers. Edited by John Colley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. xii + 270 pp. Reviewed by Robert Benton.

The Big Empty: Essays on Western Landscapes as Narrative. Edited by Leonard Engel. Albuquerque: University of new Mexico Press, 1994. xxi + 321 pp. Reviewed by Robert Benton.

So Shall You Reap: Farming and Crops in Human Affairs. By Otto T. Solbrig and Dorothy J. Solbrig. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1994. xx + 284 pp. Reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt.

Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New World. Edited by Sissel Johannessen and Christine A. Hastorf. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994. xvii + 623 pp. Reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt.

Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and The Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. By Richard H. Grove. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiv + 540pp. Reviewed by Hal Rothman.

Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. By Paula Findlen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xvii + 449 pp. Reviewed by L.J. Richards.

Kate Furbish and the Flora of Maine. By Ada Graham and Frank Graham, Jr. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 1995. xiv + 162 pp. Reviewed by Polly Welts Kaufman.

Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist: The Life and Times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum. By Gideon Lincecum. Edited by Jerry Bryan Lincecum and Edward Hake Phillips. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1994. xxxvii + 321 pp. Reviewed by Michael J. Brodhead.

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist. By Nicolaas A. Rupke. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1994. xviii + 462 pp. Reviewed by Michael J. Brodhead.

Naturalist. By Edward O. Wilson. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994. xii + 380 pp. Reviewed by Michael J. Brodhead.

Trees and People: Forestland Ecosystems and Our Future. By Richard N. Jordan. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994. xx + 276 pp. Reviewed by Ken Drushka.

A Country So Full of Game: The Story of Wildlife in Iowa. By James J. Dinsmore. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. xi + 248 pp. Reviewed by Robert K. Davis.

A Natural History of Nature Writing. By Frank Stewart. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995. xxiii + 279 pp. Reviewed by Stan Goldman.

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. By Lawrence Buell. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995. ix + 586 pp. Reviewed by Stan Goldman.

Landscapes of Fear: Perceptions of Nature and the City in the Middle Ages. By Vito Fumagalli. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1994. vi + 222 pp. Reviewed by Diego Moreno.

The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991. Edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown, W. J. Eccles, and Donald P. Heldman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1994. xx + 536 pp. Reviewed by Kenneth Lee Petersen.

Hail, Columbia: Robert Gray, John Kendrick and the Pacific Fur Trade. By John Scofield. [Portland]: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1993. xx + 378 pp. Reviewed by Kenneth Lee Petersen.

Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing n the Arenal Region, Costa Rica. Edited by Payson D. sheets and Brian R. McKee. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. viii + 350 pp. Reviewed by Peter L. Steere.

Footprints of the Forest: Ka'apor Ethnobotany: The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People. By William Balée. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xxiii + 396 pp. Reviewed by Stanley L. Krugman.

A History of the Ecosystem Concept in Ecology. By Frank Benjamin Golley. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1993. xvi + 254 pp. Reviewed by George Priddle.

From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America From 1500 to the Present. By Gordon G. Whitney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxxiv + 451 pp. Reviewed by George Priddle.