October 2006 (11:4)

Articles:

 William Rollins. “‘Reflections on a Spare Tire: SUVs and Postmodern Environmental Consciousness," 684-723.

Theodore (Ted ) Binnema and Melanie Niemi. “'Let the Line be Drawn Now': Wilderness, Conservation, and the Exclusion of Aboriginal People from Banff National Park in Canada,” 724-750.

Nicolaas Mink. “‘A Narrative for Nature's Nation: Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Making of Rivers of America,” 751-774.

Chris Pearson. “'The Age of Wood': Fuel and Fighting in French Forests, 1940-1944,” 775-803.

Jane Carruthers. “Tracking of Game Trails: Looking Afresh at the Politics of Environmental History in South Africa” 904-829.

Gallery:

Paul Sutter  on "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon," 830-834.

Sources:

Maria Lourdes D. Palomares, Elizabeth Mohammed, and Daniel Pauley on European Expectations as a Source of Historic Abundance Data on Marine Organisms: A Case Study of the Falkland Islands, 835-847.

Book Reviews:

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. By Mark Elvin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xxviii + 564 pp. Bibliographical references, index, maps, and illustrations. Cloth $39.95, paper $22.00. Reviewed by J. Donald Hughes.

Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000. By James C. McCann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 289. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $27.95. Reviewed by Gregory H. Maddox.

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. By John Soluri. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xiii+321 pages. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $21.95. Reviewed by Sterling Evans.

Northern Europe: An Environmental History. By Tamara Whited, Jens Engels, Richard Hoffmann, Hilde Ibsen, and Wybren Verstegen. Nature and Human Societies series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. xvii + 275 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliographic essay, index. Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by Scott Moranda.

The Still-Burning Bush. By Stephen Pyne. Melbourne: Scribe Short Books, 2006. vii + 137. Paper AU$22.00. Reviewed by Don Garden.

Forests, Peasants, and Revolutionaries: Forest Conservation and Organization in Soviet Russia, 1917-1929. By Brian Bonhomme. Boulder: East European Monographs, 2005. 252 pp. Footnotes, tables, selected bibliography. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by David Moon.

Environmentality, Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. By Arun Agrawal. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005, 344 pp., photos, tables, figures. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Reviewed by Mahesh Rangarajan.

London's Thames: The River That Shaped a City and Its History. By Gavin Weightman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. x + 150 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth $23.95. Reviewed by Matthew Osborn.

The Evolution of American Ecology: 1890-2000. By Sharon E. Kingsland. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, essay on sources, index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by Larry Thomas Spencer.

Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West. By Michael Robinson. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xvii + 473 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $24.95. Reviewed by Tim Lehman.

The Journey to PICES: Scientific Cooperation in the North Pacific. By Sara Tjossem. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program, 2005. xii + 194pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $20.00. Reviewed by Gary Kroll.

Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. By Scott Kirsch. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xi + 257pp. Photos, maps, figure, tables. $39.95. Reviewed by Paul Josephson. 

The Environmental Protection Agency: Structuring Motivation In A Green Bureaucracy. By Robert McMahon. Brighton, U.K. and Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2006. xiii + 219 pages. Bibliography, index. Cloth $69.50. Reviewed by Jacqueline Corn. 

George W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate. By Jacqueline Vaughn and Hanna J. Cortner. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xii + 231 pp. Notes, index. Paper $24.95. Reviewed by Osha Gray Davidson. 

Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How often Does Business Get its Way? By Sheldon Kamieniecki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. 348 pp. Tables, figures. Cloth $65.00, Paper $24.95. Reviewed by Derek Hoff. 

Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. By Finis Dunaway. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiv + 246 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $37.00. Reviewed by Daniel J. Philippon.  

Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. By Melanie L. Simo. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xv + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $39.50. Reviewed by Michael P. Branch.  

Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 279 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. $25.00. Reviewed by Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade-Downs.

 

Seeing Nature through Gender. Edited by Virginia J. Scharff. Development of Western Resources series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. 344 pp. Photographs, map. Cloth $45.00. Reviewed by Barbara T. Gates.