October 2007 (12:4)

Articles:

 Liza Piper and John Sandlos. “A Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North,” 759-795.

Shannon Stunden Bower. “Watersheds: Conceptualizing Manitoba's Drained Landscape, 1985-1950,” 796-819.  

Stéphane Castonguay . “The Production of Flood as Natural Catastrophe: Extreme Events and the Construction of Vulnerability in the Drainage Basin of the St. Francis River (Quebec), Mid-nineteenth to Mid-twentieth Century,” 820-844.       

Sherry Olson. “Downwind, Downstream, Downtown: The Environmental Legacy in Baltimore and Montreal,” 845-866.

Stephen Bocking. “Science and Spaces in the Northern Environment,” 867-894.             

Tina Loo. “Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River,” 895-919.  

P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Matthew Farish . “The Cold War on Canadian Soil: Militarizing a Northern Environment.” 920-950.

Reflections:

James Feldman and Lynne Heasley.  “Recentering North American Environmental History: Pedagogy and Scholarship in the Great Lakes Region,” 951-958.

Stephen J. Pyne. “Burning Border,”  959-965.

Gallery:

Joan M. Schwartz. “ Photograph: Between Landscape and  Environment,” 966-993.

Book Reviews:

The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel . Edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxvi + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, index. $49.95 cloth.  Reviewed by Robert Wilson.

States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century . By Tina Loo. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xxiv + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85, paper $29.95. Reviewed by Neil S. Forkey

Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 . By George Colpitts. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2002. x + 205 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by Karen Wonders.

Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories . By John Sandlos. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2007. xxiii + 333 pages. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by William R. Morrison.

This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment . Edited by Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2005. xx + 386 pages. Bibliographical references and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $34.95. Reviewed by Joanna Dean.

The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage . By Jamie Benidickson. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2007. 432 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by Christine Meisner Rosen.

Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia . By James Murton. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2007. 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by Bruce Shelvey.

Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination . By Julie Cruikshank. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2005. xii + 312 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by Andrew Baldwin.

The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau . By William J. Turkel. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2007. xxvi + 322 pp. Nature History Society Series. Illustrations, notes, tables, maps, bibliography, glossary, toponymic index, general index. Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by James Murton.

Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay . By Claire Elizabeth Campbell. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2005. xx + 282 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by Shannon Stunden Bower.

Marshlands: Four Centuries of Environmental Change on the Shores of the St. Lawrence . By Matthew G. Hatvany. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003. 184 pp. xxi + 184 pp. Illustrations, maps, and bibliography. $25.00. Reviewed by Cole Harris.

Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement . By Rusty Bittermann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii + 382 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $29.95. Reviewed by Dr. Douglas Baldwin.

Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974 . By Gordon Hak. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2007. 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, maps, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by William G. Robbins.

The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines & Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941 . By H.V. Nelles. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005 [1974]. xxxi + 514 pp. Note on Sources, Index. Paper $29.95. Reviewed by Arn Keeling.

Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History . By Graeme Wynn. Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, and Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO, 2007. Nature and Human Societies Series. xxi + 503 pages.  Maps, index, and bibliography. Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by Ted Binnema

Canada's Forests, a History . By Ken Drushka. Durham, NC: Forest History Society; and Montreal, Kingston, London, England, and Ithaca, NY: McGill-Queen's University Press 2003. Forest History Society Issues series. viii + 97 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, index. Paper $8.95. Reviewed by Graeme Wynn

Feds, Forests and Fire. A Century of Canadian Forestry Innovation . By Richard A. Rajala. Ottawa : Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2005. Transformation series xi + 116 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $20.00 CDN. Reviewed by Graeme Wynn

Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia's North Coast, 1870-2005 . By Richard A. Rajala. Victoria : Royal BC Museum Corporation, 2006. vii + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.95. Reviewed by Graeme Wynn.