October 2002 (7:4)

Articles:

Jeffrey K. Stine, “Placing Environmental History on Display,” 566-588.

William B. Meyer, “The Perfectionists and the Weather: The Oneida Community’s Quest for Meteorological Utopia, 1848-1879,” 589-610.

Zachary J. S. Falck, “Controlling the Weed Nuisance in Turn-of-the-Century American Cities,” 611-631.

Richard Freeman, “The EcoFactory: The United States Forest Service and the Political Construction of Ecosystem Management,” 632-658.

Per Eliasson and Sven G. Nilsson, “‘You Should Hate Young Oaks and Young Noblemen’: The Environmental History of Oaks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sweden,” 659-677.

Book Reviews:

Näkökulmia Helsingin ympäristöhistoriaan: Kaupungin ja ympäristön muutos 1800- ja 1900-luvuilla. Edited by Simo Laakkonen, Sari Laurila, Pekka Kansanen, and Harry Schulman. Helsinki: City of Helsinki and Edita Ltd., 2001. 274 pp. Reviewed by Mikko Saikku.

Morastwelt und Paradies: Oekonomie und Oekologie in der Landwirtschaft am Beispiel der Meliorationen und Westfalen und Brandenburg (1830-1880). By Rita Gudermann. Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2000. xiii + 577 pp. Reviewed by Franz-Josef Brueggemeier.

The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. By Stephen Mosley. Cambridge, England: White Horse Press, 2001. x + 271 pp. Reviewed by David Stradling.

Contested Mountains: Nature, Development and Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880-1980. By Robert A. Lambert. Cambridge, England: White Horse Press, 2001. xviii + 310 pp. Reviewed by Gordon Whitney.

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. By Harriet Ritvo. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. viii + 347 pp. Reviewed by Ann Greene.

The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication. By Stephen Budiansky. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992, reprinted 1999. xxiii + 190 pp. Reviewed by Ann Greene.

Grazing Ecology and Forest History. By F. W. M. Vera. New York: Cabi Publishing, 2000. xix + 506 pp. Reviewed by Mark A. Blumler.

A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future. By David Hancocks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xxii + 280 pp. Reviewed by Frank Uekoetter.

Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950. By Peter Boomgaard. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. xiv + 305 pp. Reviewed by Tobias J. Lanz.

Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana c. 1850 to Recent Times. By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. xii + 244 pp. Reviewed by Nancy Jacobs.

World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000. By Sing C. Chew. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira, 2001. ix + 217 pp. Reviewed by Michael Kucher.

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples. By Tim Flannery. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. 404 pp. Reviewed by Frederick H. Damon.

The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. By Dan Flores. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. x + 285 pp. Reviewed by Mark Harvey.

Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. By Theodore Binnema. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xvi + 263 pp. Reviewed by Thomas McHenry.

The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot. Edited by Harold K. Steen. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2001. ix + 230 pp. Reviewed by James G. Lewis.

Edward Abbey: A Life. By James M. Cahalan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. xv + 357 pp. Reviewed by Melissa White.

California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, and the Politics of Hazard Mitigation. By Carl-Henry Geschwind. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. x + 337 pp. Reviewed by Jeremy Vetter.

A Landscape Transformed: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, Connecticut. By Robert B. Gordon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 259 pp. Reviewed by James C. Williams.