July 2003 (8:3)

Articles:

Carolyn Merchant “Shades of Darkness: Race and Environmental History,” 380-394.

Dianne D. Glave, “‘A Garden So Brilliant with Colors, So Original in Its Design’: Rural African American Women, Gardening, Progressive Reform, and the Foundation of an African American Environmental Perspective,” 395-411.

Peter C. Baldwin, “How Night Air Became Good Air, 1776-1930,” 412-429.

Thaddeus Sunseri, “Reinterpreting a Colonial Rebellion: Forestry and Social Control in German East Africa, 1874-1915,” 430-451.

E. Elena Songster, “Cultivating the Nation in Fujian's Forests: Forest Policies and Afforestation Efforts in China, 1911-1937,” 452-473.

Book Reviews:

The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China.By Chris Coggins. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. xi + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00. Reviewed by Robert B. Mark.

The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion.By Brett L. Walker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xii + 332 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 Reviewed by Taiichi Ito.

Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action.By Martin Mulligan and Stuart Hill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. vii + 338 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $75.00, paper $28.00. Reviewed by John Dargavel.

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. By Mike Davis. London: Verso, 2001. x + 464 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00, paper $20.00. Reviewed by Indur M. Goklany.

Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel. By Alon Tal. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 546 pp. Cloth $85.00, paper $34.95. Reviewed by Richard C. Foltz.

Agrarmodernisierung und oekologische Folgen:  Westfalen vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.Edited by Karl Ditt, Rita Gudermann, Norwich Ruesse. Paderborn, Germany:  Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2001. xi + 812 pp. Illustrations, maps. List of contributors, bibliographies. $128.00. Reviewed by Gesine Gerhard.

Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices. Edited by Michael Bravo and Sverker Sörlin. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2002. ix + 373 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $39.95. Reviewed by Peder Anker.

Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact.By Lyle Dick. Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2001. xxv, 615 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes. Paper, $34.95. Reviewed by W. Donald Hudson, Jr.

The War on Weeds in the Prairie West: An Environmental History.By Clinton L. Evans. Calgary, Canada:  University of Calgary Press, 2002. xviii + 309 pp. Illustrations, plates, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $29.95. Reviewed by Bradley H. Baltensperger.

Opening the Ozarks: Historical Geography of Missouri’s Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830.By Walter A. Schroeder. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xxi + 551 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.95. Reviewed by Brooks Blevins.

The Health of the Country: How Americans Understood Themselves and Their Land.By Conevery Bolton Valencius. New York: Basic Books, 2002. viii + 388 pp. Cloth $30.00. Reviewed by Steven Stoll.

God’s Wilds: John Muir’s Vision of Nature. By Dennis C. Williams. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiv + 246 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Stephen Germic.

Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. By Paul S. Sutter. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 Reviewed by John Herron.

Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them.By Karen R. Merrill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xix + 274 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by William D. Rowley.

Texas Natural History: A Century of Change.By David J. Schmidly. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002. xiv + 534 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviewed by Dale Goble.

A River and Its City:  The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans.By Ari Kelman. Berkeley, Calif.:  The University of California Press, 2003. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Craig E. Colten.

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago.By David Naguib Pellow. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2002. ix +  234 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $24.95. Reviewed by Sylvia Hood Washington.

The People’s Forests. By Robert Marshall. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. (original 1933) 264 pp. 12 charts & tables, bibliography, index. Paper $14.95. Reviewed by Sara Dant Ewert.

Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology.By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. xvii + 228 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $16.50. Reviewed by Robert Burkholder.

The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment.Edited by Steven Rosendale. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. xxix + 275 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95. Reviewed by Corey Lewis.