July 1997 (2:3)

Articles:

Jeffrey L. Meikle, "Material Doubts: The Consequences of Plastic," pp. 278-300.

Karl Jacoby, "Class and Environmental History: Lessons From 'The War in the Adirondacks,'" pp. 324-42.

Anthony S. Travis, "Poisoned Groundwater and Contaminated Soil: The Tribulations and Trial of the First Major Manufacturer of Aniline Dyes in Basel," pp. 343-65.

Book Reviews:

Earthcare: Women and the Environment. By Carolyn Merchant. New York: Routledge, 1996. xxii + 280 pp. Reviewed by Noël Sturgeon.

Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek: Battling Over Race, Class, and the Environment. By Colin Crawford. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.,1996. xxi + 410 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Hurley.

Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. By Martha F. Lee. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995. xii + 208 pp. Reviewed by George Sessions.

An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West. By Donald Worster. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. xii + 151 pp. Reviewed by John Mack Faragher.

The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778-1900. By Robert Bunting. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. x + 236 pp. Reviewed by Peter Boag.

Islands in the Desert: A History of the Uplands of Southeastern Arizona. By John P. Wilson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, in cooperation with the Historical Society of New Mexico, 1995. xxii + 362 pp. Reviewed by Diana Hadley.

The Jeffersonian Dream: Studies in the History of American Land Policy and Development. By Paul Gates. Edited by Allan G. and Margaret Beattie Bogue. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. xx + 172 pp. Reviewed by Robert M. Rakoff.

State Trust Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. By Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xiv + 370 pp. Reviewed by Robert M. Rakoff.

Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science. By Laura Dassow Walls. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xiv + 300 pp. Reviewed by Frank N. Egerton.

Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880. By W. Conner Sorensen. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. xiv + 357 pp. Reviewed by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917. By William Irwin. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xxiii + 276 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth McKinsey.

Enos Mills: Citizen of Nature. By Alexander Drummond. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1995. xii + 433 pp. Reviewed by Thomas G. Smith.

Wind Energy in America: A History. By Robert W. Righter. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. xxi + 361 pp. Reviewed by John G. Clark.

Degrees of Disaster: Prince William Sound: How Nature Reels and Rebounds. By Jeff Wheelwright. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 352 pp. Reviewed by Stephen Haycox.

Oil on the Edge: Offshore Development, Conflict, Gridlock. By Robert Gramling. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xiv + 208 pp. Reviewed by Tyler Priest.

Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices. By Joel A. Mintz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. x + 200 pp. Reviewed by DeWitt John.

Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. By Hugh Gusterson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. xviii + 351 pp. Reviewed by Scott D. Hughes.

Historical Settlement of Liberia and Its Environmental Impact. By Syrulwa L Somah. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995. 153 pp. Reviewed by Jackson Wonde.

Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism. By Michael A. Osbourne. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xvi + 216 pp. Reviewed by Michael Adas.