January 1998 (3:1)

Articles:

David Peterson del Mar, "Our Animal Friends: Depictions of Animals in Reader's Digest During the 1950s," pp. 25-44.

Scott Dewey, "Working for the Environment: Organized Labor and the Origins of Environmentalism in the United States, 1948-1970," pp. 45-63.

David L. Aagesen, "On the Northern Fringe of the South American Temperate Forest: The History and Conservation of the Monkey-Puzzle Tree," pp. 64-85.

Book Reviews:

What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920s. By Mart A. Stewart. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix + 370 pp. Reviewed by Alan Taylor.

Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides. By John Wargo. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. 396 pp. Reviewed by John H. Perkins.

The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. By Joel A. Tarr. Akron, Oh.: University of Akron Press, 1996. 419 pp. Reviewed by John T. Cumbler.

Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1955. By R. Bruce Stephenson. Columbus: Ohio State University, 1997. ix + 234 pp. Reviewed by Mollie Keller.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. By John M. Barry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. 524 pp. Reviewed by Robert E. McFarland.

Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. By Donald C. Jackson. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1995. xvii + 336 pp. Reviewed by James C. Williams.

Places of Quiet Beauty. By Rebecca Conard. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. xv + 382 pp. Reviewed by James Wright Steely.

John Otto: Trials and Trails. By Alan J. Kania. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1996. xv + 400 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Gulliford.

The Great American Wolf. By Bruce Hampton. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1997. 308 pp. Reviewed by Jim Feldman.

American Nature Writers. Edited by John Elder. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. 1,210 pp. Reviewed by Stan Goldman.

A Wider View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature. By Robert Kuhn McGregor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiv + 247 pp. Reviewed by Laura Dassow Walls.

New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by R. J. Hoage and William A. Deiss. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xv + 198 pp. Reviewed by Michael P. Branch.

Green Backlash: The History and Politics of Environmental Opposition in the United States. By Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1997. xviii + 322 pp. Reviewed by Samuel P. Hays.

Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement. By Andrew Rowell. New York: Routledge, 1997. xxv + 476 pp. Reviewed by Samuel P. Hays.

Mass Media and Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades. By Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996. xxvii + 243 pp. Reviewed by Stephen Ponder.

Tropical Deforestation: The Human Dimension. Edited by Leslie E. Sponsel, Thomas N. Headland, and Robert C. Bailey. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xxviii + 365 pp. Reviewed by J. Donald Hughes.

Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine. By Jane I. Dawson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. xii + 221 pp. Reviewed by Isebill V. Gruhn.

Environment and the Nation State: The Netherlands, the European Union and Acid Rain. By Duncan Liefferink. New York: Manchester University Press, 1996. xiv + 225 pp. Reviewed by Anthony R. Zito.

Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History: The Case of Tanganyika, 1850-1950. By Helge Kjekshus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977; reprint with new introduction and additional bibliography, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996. xiv + 271 pp. Reviewed by David M. Anderson.

Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania. Edited by Gregory Maddox, James L. Giblin, and Isaria N. Kimambo. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996. xiv + 271 pp. Reviewed by David M. Anderson.