October 2004 (9:4)

Reflections:

Michael Lewis, “‘This Class Will Write a Book’: An Experiment in Environmental History Pedagogy,” 604-619.

Laura A. Watt, Leigh Raymond, and Meryl L. Eschen, “On Preserving Ecological and Cultural Landscapes,” 630-647.

Articles:

Peter C. Mancall, “Tales Tobacco Told in Sixteenth-Century Europe,” 648-678.

Rauno Lahtinen and Timo Vuorisalo, “‘It’s War and Everyone Can Do As They Please!’: An Environmental History of a Finnish City in Wartime,” 679-700.

Maril Hazlett, “‘Woman vs. Man vs. Bugs’: Gender and Popular Ecology in Early Reactions to Silent Spring,” 701-729.

Gallery:

Finis Dunaway on the Subtle Spectacle of Fallen Leaves, 730-734.

Book Reviews:

Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. By Carolyn Merchant. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 308 pp. Includes illustrations, bibliographical references and index. Cloth $25.00, paper $15.17. Reviewed by Joyce Chaplin.

Storia dell’Ambiente: Una introduzione. [History of the Environment: An Introduction]. By Marco Armiero and Stefania Barca. Roma: Carocci editore, 2004. 211pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, 16.80 euro. Reviewed by Marcus Hall.

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. By Brian Fagan. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xvii+284 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $26.00. Reviewed by Paul V. Adams.

Changing Landscapes: The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and Its Influence on Tropical Forest Management. By Duncan Poore. London: United Kingdom, 2003. 312 pp. Notes, references, index. $24.95. Reviewed by Victor K. Teplyakov.

Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm. By Thomas J. Campanella. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xii + 228 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $38.00. Reviewed by Terence Young.

Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscape of Louisiana and Guatemala. By Kit Anderson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii +183 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95. Reviewed by Garrison Wilkes.

The Management of Common Land in North West Europe, c. 1500-1850. Edited by Martina de Moor, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Paul Warde. Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area (CORN) publication series. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002. 261 p. Figures, tables, glossary. Paper $75.00. Reviewed by Petra J. E. M. van Dam.

Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945. By Thomas M. Lekan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 334 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $49.95. Reviewed by Matthew Jefferies.

Where We Belong: Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature. By Paul Shepard. Edited by Florence Rose Shepard. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xxiii + 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Reviewed by Joshua Buhs.

Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement. By Daniel J. Philippon. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xv + 373 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. Reviewed by Don Scheese.

Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks. By Scott Herring. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. xi + 199 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.50, paper $16.50. Reviewed by Lary M. Dilsaver.

Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment. By Glen A. Love. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. viii + 213 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.50, paper $17.50. Reviewed by Tara Lynne Clapp.

The State Park Movement in America: A Critical Review. By Ney C. Landrum. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xv + 288 pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, index. $44.95. Reviewed by Peter Micklaus.

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. By Timothy Silver. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxii + 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95. Reviewed by Eric G. Bolen.

Building San Francisco’s Parks, 1850-1930. By Terrence Young. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xvi + 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00. Reviewed by Lisa Benton-Short.

The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism. By Hal K. Rothman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xi + 258 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Reviewed by Paul H. Gobster.

The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840-1917. By Jon A. Peterson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xxi + 431 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $59.95. Reviewed by Adam Rome.

Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. By Nancy S. Seasholes. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xiv + 533 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $49.95. Reviewed by Robert M. Rakoff.

Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor Disputes. By Barbara L. Allen. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xiii + 21 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00, paper $22.00. Reviewed by Frederick R. Davis.

Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout. By Timothy J. Minchin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 233 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. $55.00 Cloth. Reviewed by Christopher J. Huggard.

Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground. By Brian K. Obach. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. x + 338 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $27.00. Reviewed by Eric D. Olmanson.

Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America’s First Martyr to Environmentalism. By Stuart McIver. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvii + 187 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Reviewed by Ed de Steiguer.

Politics, Pollution, and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir. By Russell E. Train. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003. xiii + 376 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $28.00. Reviewed by Sara Dant Ewert.

Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. By Larry Anderson. Creating the North American Landscape series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 452 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Reviewed by Steven J. Holmes.

The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature. By David Baron. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes and bibliography. $24.95. Reviewed by Derek Larson.