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July 1999 (4:3)

Articles:

Robert W. Wilcox, "The Law of the Least Effect: Cattle Ranching and the Environment in the Savanna of Mato Grosso, Brazil, 1900-1980," 338-68.

Donald Kennedy and Marjorie Lucks, "Rubber, Blight, and Mosquitoes: Biogeography Meets the Global Economy," 369-83.

Thomas Lekan, "Regionalism and the Politics of Landscape Preservation in the Third Reich," 384-404.

Michael F. Logan, "Head-Cuts and Check-Dams: Changing Patterns of Environmental Manipulation by the Hohokam and Spanish in the Santa Cruz River Valley, 200-1820," 405-430.

Book Reviews:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. By Jared Diamond. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. 480 pp. Reviewed by Gregory H. Nobles.

The Ecology of Eden. By Evan Eisenberg. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. xxiv + 612 pp. Reviewed by Sam Bass Warner Jr.

Tigers, Rice, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China. By Robert B. Marks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xix + 383 pp. Reviewed by Richard P. Tucker.

River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, 1770-1994. By Christopher V. Hill. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 1997. xii + 200 pp. Reviewed by Robert B. Marks.

Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest. By Jeffrey Broadbent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xviii + 418 pp. Reviewed by Kazuto Oshio.

The Making of the Cretan Landscape. By Oliver Rackham and Jennifer Moody. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, distributed in the U. S. and Canada by St Martin's Press, 1996. xvii + 237 pp. Reviewed by J. R. McNeill.

Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History. Edited by Carolyn Merchant. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998. xxii + 489 pp. Reviewed by Steven Stoll.

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Immigration of Disaster. By Mike Davis. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1998. 484 pp. Reviewed by Jill Pearlman.

An Environmental History of Northeast Florida. By James J. Miller. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. xiv + 223 pp. Reviewed by Mary Ellen Wilson.

Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and Land in Florida. By Mark Derr. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. 448 pp. Reviewed by Mary Ellen Wilson.

Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Paul F. Starrs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xx + 356 pp. Reviewed by William D. Rowley.

Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall. By David H. Stratton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xvi + 376 pp. Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia.

American Indians and National Parks. By Robert Keller and Michael F. Turek. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xii + 319 pp. Reviewed by Andrew H. Fisher.

Take Down Flag & Feed Horses. By Bill Everhart. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xxiv + 238 pp. Reviewed by Mark Barringer.

Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster. By Alan Derickson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Hugh S. Gorman.

Air Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960. By Gail Cooper. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 248 pp. Reviewed by William Worthington.

Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing. By Randall Roorda. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xix + 283 pp. Reviewed by Don Scheese.


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