July 2006 (11:3)

Articles:

 Adam Rome. “‘Political Hermaphrodites': Gender and Environmental Reform in Progressive America," 440-463.

Christopher Hamlin and John T. Greevy. “The Greening of America, Catholic Style, 1930-1950,” 464-499.

Albert Way. “Burned to Be Wild: Harold Stoddard and the Roots of Ecological Conservation in the Southern Longleaf Pine,” 500-526.

Darin Kinsey. “‘Seeding the Water as the Earth': The Epicenter and Peripheries of a Western Aquacultural Revolution,” 527-566.

W. Jeffrey Bolster. “Opportunities in Marine Environmental History,” 567-597.

Gallery:

James G. Lewis on Smokey Bear in Vietnam, 598-603.

Sources:

Greg Müller on Lichenometry and Environmental History, 604-609.

Book Reviews:

Sequoia: The Heralded Tree in American Art and Culture. By Lori Vermaas. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003. xvi + 271 pp. Illustrations, photographs, map, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviewed by John Herron.

Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. By Carl Zimring. Piscataway, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xi + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviewed by Sarah Hill.

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. By Elizabeth Royte. New York: Little, Brown, 2005. viii + 311 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. $24.95. Reviewed by Sarah Hill.

Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. By Heather Rogers. New York and London: New Press, 2005. xi + 288 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. $23.95. Reviewed by Sarah Hill.

Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. DVD. Directed by Heather Rogers.  AK Press. 2005. 19 minutes. $12. . Reviewed by Sarah Hill.

The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. Edited by Brian F. Atwater, et al. Reston, Va., and Seattle: United States Geological Survey in association with University of Washington Press, 2005. vii + 133 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, references, index. Paper $24.95. Reviewed by Matthew Mulcahy.

Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America. By Paul S. Martin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 269 pp. Photographs, figures, tables. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Juliet Clutton-Brock.

Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey. By George Frison. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xix + 266 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Reviewed by Shepard Krech III.

Forests and Chases of England and Wales c. 1500 – c.1850: Towards a Survey and Analysis. Edited by John Langdon and Graham Jones. Oxford: St John's College Research Centre, 2005. xviii + 118pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. £25 paperback. Reviewed by A. M. Mannion.

Forest and Garden, Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949. By Melanie L. Simo. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. vi + 296 pp., black and white illustrations. $29.25. Reviewed by Daniel Nadenicek.

The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xix + 200 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, notes on contributors, index.  $75.00.Reviewed by Zachary Falck.

Water, Time and European Cities: History Matters for the Futures. Edited by Petri S. Juuti and Tapio S. Katko. Tampere, Finland: WaterTime, 2005. 253 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, references. Free. Reviewed by Michael Rawson.

Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900. By David L. Richards. Durham and Hanover, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England, 2005. x + 313 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00.Blake Harrison.

Public History and the Environment. Edited by Martin V. Melosi and Philip V. Scarpino. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Co., 2004. xiv + 291 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $38.50. Scott Slocombe.

Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation. By Alfred Runte. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2006. xix + 195 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cloth, $29.95. Glen Sample Ely.

Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930. By Richard Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.Byron E. Pearson.

In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club. Michael McCloskey. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005. xv + 399 pp. Index, notes. $29.95.Gregory J. Dehler.

Mining California: An Ecological History. By Andrew C. Isenberg. New York: Hill & Wang, 2005. 242 pages. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth $27.00.Peter Coates.

The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures. By Daniel Hillel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Notes, appendices, bibliography. $32.50. Alon Tal.

Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia. Edited by Peter Boomgard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. vii +344 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $30.00. Michael Lewis.

Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937. By David Pietz. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xix + 142 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography,  index, notes. $110. Kenneth Pomeranz.

Environmentality, Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. By Arun Agrawal. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005, 344 pp., photos, tables, figures. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Mahesh Rangarajan.

An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning. DVD, directed by Davis Guggenheim. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Participant Productions, 2006. 94 minutes, color. Available September, 2006. Lisa Mighetto.

 


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