July 1998 (3:3)

Articles:

Raymond Dominick, "Capitalism, Communism and Environmental Protection: Lessons from the German Experience," pp. 311-32.

Lance van Sittert, "'Keeping the Enemy at Bay': The Extermination of Wild Carnivora in the Cape Colony, 1889-1910," pp. 333-56.

Philip Howard, "The History of Ecological Marginalization in Chiapas," pp. 357-77.

Book Reviews:

Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic. By James Fairhead and Melissa Leach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii + 354 pp. Reviewed by Gregory Maddox.

Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth, and Resources in Sierra Leone. By Paul Richards. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996. xxx + 182 pp. Reviewed by Gregory Maddox.

The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment. Edited by Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996. xvi + 240 pp. Reviewed by Gregory Maddox.

Ecology, Climate, and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400- 1940. By Richard Grove. Cambridge, England: White Horse Press, 1997. x + 237 pp. Reviewed by Alan MacEachern.

Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies. Edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin. Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997. 248 pp. Reviewed by Sarah Phillips.

The Greeks and the Environment. Edited by Laura Westra and Thomas M. Robinson. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997. x + 230 pp. Reviewed by William Stiebing Jr.

Shinrin bunkaron to Kirisuto-kyo (Forest culture and Christianity). By Kobayashi Yutaka. Yokyo: Kirisuto-kyo tosho shuppansha, 1997. 262 pp. Reviewed by Thomas Cox.

Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science. Edited by Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xii + 280 pp. Reviewed by Vera Norwood.

Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. By Richard West Sellars. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv + 380 pp. Reviewed by Robert Righter.

Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska. By Theodore Catton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. xxi + 287 pp. Reviewed by Mark Spence.

The Hunter’s Game: Poachers and Conservation in Twentieth-Century America. By Louis S. Warren. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. xi + 227 pp. Reviewed by Theodore Catton.

Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940. By William G. Robbins. Forward by William Cronon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. xvii + 392 pp. Reviewed by Nancy Langston.

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. By Blaine Harden. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996. 271 pp. Reviewed by Jean Johnson.

Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. xii + 331 pp. Reviewed by Kirk Jeffrey.

Environmental Stewardship: Images from Popular Culture. By Dorothy J. Howell. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1997. xix + 260 pp. Reviewed by Peter Fritzell.

Eagle’s Plume: The Struggle to Preserve the Life and Haunts of America’s Bald Eagle. By Bruce E. Beans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 318 pp. Reviewed by Mark Barrow Jr.

Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation. By Robin W. Winks. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997. xii + 259 pp. Reviewed by Sherry Smith.

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement. By Benjamin Kline. San Francisco: Acada Books, 1997. x + 166 pp. Reviewed by Brian Bonhomme.

The Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands. By Ann Vileisis. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997. xii + 433 pp. Reviewed by Betsy Mendelsohn.

Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. By Hugh Prince. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiii + 395 pp. Reviewed by Betsy Mendelsohn.