October 2003 (8:4)

Articles:

Christine Meisner Rosen, "'Knowing' Industrial Pollution: Nuisance Law and the Power of Tradition in a Time of Rapid Economic Change, 1840-1864," 565-597.

Melissa A. Johnson, "The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras," 598-617.

Ellen Stroud, "Reflections from Six Feet Under the Field: Dead Bodies in the Classroom," 618-627.

Rolf Diamant, "Reflections on Environmental History With A Human Face: Experiences From a New National Park," 628-642.

Bernard Mergen, "Review Essay: Children and Nature in History, " 643-669.

Book Reviews:

The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History. By Carolyn Merchant. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xviii + 448 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by John Opie.

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935. By Donald J. Pisani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 394 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. Cloth $49.95. Reviewed by Karen R. Merrill.

The Lessening Stream: An Environmental History of the Santa Cruz River. By Michael Logan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xiii + 311 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 Reiewed by Stephen C. Sturgeon.

The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography. By John R. Wennersten. Baltimore, Md.: Maryland Historical Society, 2001. xix + 255 pp. Bibliographical references, index. Cloth $30.00. Reviewed by Suzanne E. Chapelle.

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters. By Robert Jerome Glennon. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002. x + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $25.00. Reviewed by Laura A. Wimberley.

Empty Nets: Indians, Dams and the Columbia River. By Roberta Ulrich. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999. vii + 248 pp. Illustrations, bibligraphy, index. Paper $19.95. Reviewed by Stephen Haycox.

The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000. By Mark Cioc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xiii+263 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Sandra Chaney.

Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River's Mouth. By Nigel J. H. Smith. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xii + 281 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95. Reviewed by Robert W. Wilcox.

In Amazonia: A Natural History. By Hugh Raffles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiii + 302 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper $17.95. Reviewed by Shawn Miller.

The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science Under ICES. By Helen M. Rozwadowski. Copenhagen: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in association with University of Washington Press, 2002. ix + 410 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by Christine Keiner.

Forests of Ash: An Environmental History. By Tom Griffiths. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 272 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.95. Reviewed by Paul Star.

Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rainforest. By Tamara Giles-Vernick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. xiii + 293 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.50, paper $19.50. Reviewed by Chris Conte.

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. By Kenneth Olwig. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xxxii + 299 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95. Reviewed by Alix Cooper.

See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940. By Marguerite S. Shaffer. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2001. 429 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.95. Reviewed by Connie Y. Chiang.

Crater Lake National Park: A History. By Rick Harmon, Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000. 280 pp. Illustrations, plates, maps, bibliography, index. Paper $19.95. Reviewed by Marguerite S. Shaffer.

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. By Janisse Ray. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999. 285 pp. Paper $14.95. Reviewed by James Tuten, Juniata College.

Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry. By Hugh S. Gorman. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2001. xv + 451 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.95, paper $39.95. Reviewed by Terence Kehoe.

Strasse, Bahn, Panorama: Verkehrswege und Landschaftsveränderung in Deutschland von 1930 bis 1990. By Thomas Zeller. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2002. 451 pp. Bibliography. Cloth  45.00. Reviewed by Thomas Lekan.

Am Tag danach. Zur Bewältigung von Naturkatastrophen in der Schweiz 1500-2000. By Christian Pfister (ed.). Bern/Stuttgart/Vienna: Haupt, 2002. [263 pp. Illustrations, notes, maps, graphs, bibliographies, index. Cloth  58.00, paper  36.00. Simultaneously published in French as Le jour d'après. Surmonter les catastrophes naturelles: le cas de la Suisse entre 1500 et 2000. Reviewed by Thomas Zeller.

Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy. By Robert Sallares. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 341 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00. Reviewed by Margaret Humphreys.