July 2004 (9:3)

Articles:

J. R. McNeill, "Woods and Warfare in World History," 388-410.

Michael Rawson, "The Nature of Water: Reform and the Antebellum Crusade for Municipal Water in Boston," 411-435.

Bill Parenteau, "A 'Very Determined Opposition to the Law': Conservation, Angling Leases, and Social Conflict in the Canadian Atlantic Salmon Fishery, 1867-1914," 436-463.

Ken Cruikshank and Nancy B. Bouchier, "Blighted Areas and Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality on an Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890-1960," 464-496.

Ralph H. Lutts, "Like Manna from God: The American Chestnut Trade in Southwestern Virginia," 497-525.

Gallery:

Neil Maher on Shooting the Moon.

Book Reviews:

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative. By Robert B. Marks. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. xi + 173 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper $17.95. Reviewed by Edmund N. Todd.

Estudios sobre Historia y Ambiente en América II: Norteamérica, Sudamérica y el Pacífico [Studies of History and Environment in America II: North America, South America, and the Pacific]. Edited by Bernardo Martínez García and María del Rosario Prieto. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Históricos: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, 2002. ix + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Reviewed by Sterling Evans.

Historical Atlas of Central America. By Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xiv + 321 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $99.95. Reviewed by Robert H. Claxton.

Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910. By Claudia Agostoni. Latin American and Caribbean series. Calgary, Alta.; Boulder, Colo.; Mexico, D.F.: University of Calgary Press; University Press of Colorado; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2003. xvii+ 228 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $21.95. Reviewed by Dr. John Tiefenbacher.

Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca. By Ben Orlove. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxvii + 287 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, chapter notes, index. $50.00. Reviewed by Cynthia Radding.

Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History. Nancy J. Jacobs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 300 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.00. Reviewed by Gregory H. Maddox.

South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases & Comparisons. Edited by Stephen Dovers, Ruth Edgecombe, and Bill Guest. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. ix + 326 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, list of contributors, index. Paper $24.95. Reviewed by William K. Storey.

The Peopling of Britain: The Shaping of a Human Landscape. Edited by Paul Stack and Ryk Ward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xi + 295 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $74.00. Reviewed by Matthew Osborn.

The Moorlands of England and Wales: An Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000. By Ian G. Simmons. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.; distributed in the United States by Columbia University Press (New York), 2004. ix + 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, select bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.00. Reviewed by T. C. Smout.

Naturschutz und Nationalsozialismus [Nature Protection and National Socialism]. Edited by Joachim Radkau and Frank Uekötter. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag, 2003. 487 pp. Notes, list of contributors. 49.90 Euro. Reviewed by Karen E. Wonders.

The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000. By Michael Bess. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xix + 368 pp. Bibliographical references and index. Cloth $48.00, paper $18.00. Reviewed by Angela G. Mertig.

The Modern Demon: Pollution in Urban and Industrial European Societies. Edited by Christoph Bernhardt and Genviève Massard-Guilbaud. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 465 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, lists of contributors. $34.00. Reviewed by Jeanne Haffner.

Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and its Region. Edited by Joel A. Tarr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. viii + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, list of contributors, index. $32.00. Reviewed by David Stradling.

When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. By Devra Lee Davis. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xx + 316 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper $16.95. Reviewed by Clifton Hood.

Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World. By Paul R. Josephson. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002. vii + 311 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth $25.00. Reviewed by Sonja Schmid.

America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. By David E. Nye. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. x + 371 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Josephson.

Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. By Claire Strom. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $35.00. Reviewed by Mark Finlay.

The Future of the Southern Plains. Edited by Sherry L. Smith. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, index. Cloth $29.95.Reviewed by Alison Macalady.

Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. By Robbie Ethridge. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiii + 369 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.50. Reviewed by Warren R. Hofstra.

Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation. By Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2003, xv + 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $32.95, paper $19.95. Reviewed by Polly Welts Kaufman.

Forest Fires: The Story of a War. By Patrick Blanchet. Montreal: Cantos International Publishing, 2003. 182 pp. Bibliographical references. $39.95. Reviewed by Reviewed by James R. Fazio.

The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good. By Eric T. Freyfogle. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003. 336 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $25.00. Reviewed by Karl Brooks.

Land, Property, and the Environment. Edited by John F. Richards. Oakland, Calif.: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2002. xii + 433 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $36.95. Reviewed by Lester DeCoster.