July 2005 (10:3)

Articles:

Douglas R. Weiner, “A Death-Defying Attempt to Articulate a Coherent
Definition of Environmental History,” 404-420.

Lisa M. Brady, “The Wilderness of War: Nature and Strategy in the American
Civil War,” 421-447.

David Biggs, “Managing a Rebel Landscape: Conservation, Pioneers, and the Revolutionary Past in the U Minh Forest, Vietnam,” 448-476.

Gregory T. Cushman, “‘The Most Valuable Birds in the World’: International
Conservation Science and the Revival of Peru’s Guano Industry, 1909-1965,” 477-509.

Reflections:

Lynne Heasley, “On Walking Contested Land: Doing Environmental History in West Africa and the United States,” 510-531.

Gallery:

Lisa Mighetto on Mermaids, the Pacific Fisherman, and the “Romance of Salmon,” 632-537.

Book Reviews:

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. By Jared Diamond. New York: Viking, 2005, xi + 575 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $ 29.95. Reviewed by Verena Winiwarter.

Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War. Edited by Richard P. Tucker and Edmund P. Russell. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004. 288 pp. Maps, index. Paper $29.95. Reviewed by Lisa M. Brady.

Resources Under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State. By Paul R. Josephson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviewed by Gregory Summers.

Nature’s Experts: Science Politics, and the Environment. By Stephen Bocking. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 298 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Reviewed by Rebecca McLain.

Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides. Edited by R. Quentin Grafton, Libby Robin, and Robert J. Wasson. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales, 2004. 220 pp. Paper $39.95. Reviewed by Peter Coates.

Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. Edited by Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. Notes, list of contributors, index. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95. Reviewed by Ashwani Vasishth.

Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History. Edited by Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture, Volume 5. New York: Routledge, 2004. Ix+ 275 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. Cloth $90.00, paper $24.95. Reviewed by Harriet Ritvo.

A Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains. By Christopher A. Conte. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 215 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95. Reviewed by Tamara Giles-Vernick.

American Environmental History. Edited by Louis S. Warren. Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History, 12. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, Pub., 2003. xvii + 359 pp. Illustrations, map, references, index. Cloth $68.95, paper 31.95. Reviewed by Thomas G. Andrews.

Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change: Human Ecosystems in Eastern North America since the Pleistocene. By Paul A. Delcourt and Hazel R. Delcourt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, x+203 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $90.00. Reviewed by Evan Peacock.

The Calusa and Their Legacy: South Florida People and Their Environments. By Darcie A. MacMahon and William H. Marquardt. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. vix + 183 pp. Illustrations, notes, suggested readings, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviewed by Warren R. Hofstra.

Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry. By James E. Fickle. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi for Mississippi Forestry Foundation, Inc., 2004. Cloth $35.00. Reviewed by Mary Ellen Wilson.

Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. By Sylvia Lorraine Bowerbank. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii+287 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $49.95. Reviewed by Sharon O’Dair.

The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. By Brian Donahue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xx + 311 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $35.00. Reviewed by Richard Judd.

Fish Versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River. By Matthew D. Evenden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii + 309 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. $65.00. Reviewed by Fredric L. Quivik.

Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. By Jon T. Coleman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xv + 270 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.00. Reviewed by Marybeth Holleman.

How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature. By H. H. Shugart. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 227 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $27.50. Reviewed by Sofia Åkerberg.

Transport Processes in Nature: Propagation of Ecological Influences Through Environmental Space. By William A. Reiners and Kenneth L. Driese. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii+302 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Cloth $120.00, paper $60.00. Reviewed by Brandon Bestelmeyer.

Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors. Edited by Beth Luey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. vii + 255 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cloth $49.95, paper $16.95. Reviewed by Julidta Tarver.

RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth. Edited by William Leroy Thomas. Chicago: Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation by the University of Chicago Press, 1956. xxxviii + 1193 p. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Reviewed by Robert M. Wilson.